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Letters
Going All the Way
T HE MACWORLD WEE MERCHANTS
Companion” (June 1999} didn’t go
quite Far enough in discussing e-eommerce
site development. Sure, you can set up the
best site on the Web using Tom Negrino’s
suggestions, but if you don’t market it,
few people will ever see it.
While the Internet offers a way to
level the playing field for our niche food
business, getting eyeballs to view our
Web site has been our single biggest
challenge* Banner ads, print ads, public
relations, and ocher devices are essen¬
tial—and often expensive—components
in addition to the creation and mainte¬
nance of the site*
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Mth Main?
Left-Out LaserWriters
S INCE I JUST BOUGHT AN iMAC, L
was very interested to see your recent
article on USB products (“USB from A
to Z" June 1999).
I ran down the list of USB-to-serial
adapters, hoping I could find one that
would allow me to use my Apple Personal
LaserWriter LS, However, I found that
none of die products listed in the roundup
support serial LaserWriters like mine* Do
you know of any products on the market
(or in development) that do?
Eliza Gallo
New Xar fork
Van are not alone in wanting to save your
LaserWriter, and at least one adapter mminfac-
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new USB-to-serial adapter that supports Laser¬
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Sanity for Service Bureaus
T hanks for bringing much
needed service-bureau submission
guidelines to the forefront for all designers
(“Don’t Sabotage Your Professional Print
Job,” Create, June 1999). The top ten were
dead-on but only put a dent in the dia¬
tribes of everyday prepress troubleshoot¬
ing. I was so relieved to find it isn’t just
my department that encounters these
problems* I can now prove they are not
anomalies that we randomly make up as an
excuse for not getting a job out on time.
I passed along the information to our
clients and our from office in hopes that
it will ease our troubled workplace* We
feel like an unlimited source of free soft¬
ware training, often allowing our clients
to use us in fixing their files just as they
flee to another vendor. I keep dreaming of
a total cure, but thanks for treating some
of the symptoms.
Gallic Householder
A Bantu, Georgia
I READ STEPHEN BEALE'S ARTICLE
“Don’t Sabotage Your Professional
Print Job" with great enthusiasm. I
found it to be pretty much on the money.
However, I would like to mention a
problem we come across too often on the
job: stylized fonts. For example, a job
will come in where the bold or italic box
for a font is selected in QuarkXPress.
These fonts may print fine on a laser
printer, but if the actual printer fonts are
missing, the italic or bold will print in
roman on high-end output devices,
instead of the way the client intended.
Aaron Kroun
IVaodsidc, JVra York
GoMac. Go!
I T WAS NICE TO SEE ACTION
GoMac 2*0 get some worthwhile
press (Reviews, June 1999)* I’ve been a
GoMac devotee since version 1.0* And
while it was hard to make the leap from
S15 shareware, when Pmteron OAvned it,
to a S40 application under Powct On
Software, Pve found the improvements
are well worth the cost.
Christopher Breen’s review left out
a couple of GoMac’s more endearing
features and conveniences. To manage
items in the Start menu, just click on
the Start button while holding down the
option key, and the window pops open.
Also, you can add control-strip modules
to the Clock Tray at the right side of the
task bar. Simply click anywhere on the
task bar and hold down the mouse but¬
ton, and you get a pop-up menu that
includes Add Module and Remove
Module commands. So in addition to
launching and managing applications
easily, you can handle features such as
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Palm s Poor P1M
F ranklin tessler was way too
kind in giving a 3‘/’-mouse rating to
MacPac 2, the new Mac desktop soft¬
ware for Palm handhelds ( Reviews y June
1999). As he points out, MacPac 2 sends
notes attached to calendar items into
limbo, and simply ignores some repeat¬
ing calendar items.
That violates the fundamental idea
that has made the Palm devices so suc¬
cessful—having one body of information
available whenever and wherever you
want to access it, on a variety of platforms.
Now we’re hack to the days where we
have to say “except on a Mac.” After hav¬
ing had the Mac fully connected to the
Palm, we’re back to playing second fiddle
to PCs, or maybe we’re playing first vio¬
lin with only three strings.
Palm designers have been so smart
until now. What happened?
Jeff Byers
San Francisco, California
Mac users are divided on whether these short¬
comings constitute a fatal flaw. Despite its
problcjus , I find that MacPac 2 offers much
more functionality than its poky predecessor ;
but it still falls short of my favorite PIM, the
defunct Now Up-to-Date and Now Contact
bundle. —Franklin Tessler
I HAVE BEEN USING MACPAC 2 WITH
a PalmPilot and found a good work¬
around for the main problem described
in the review of this product (not being
able to attach notes to tasks or events on
the desktop that will appear on the Palm).
All you need to do is this: first, create the
task or event. Then create a note and
name it Handheld Note. Drag and drop
the note onto the task or event. The note
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desktop and will also appear as an attached
note on the Palm.
Victor L f s $ e r
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ommend it , as it may lead to trouble down the
road.—Franklin Tessler
Opening a Can of Worms?
I COULDN’T HELP BUT EXPERl-
ence deja vu when I read about Apple’s
decision to open part of the OS X Server
source code (“Apple Goes Open Source
with Mac Server," Neivs y June 1999). I
thought Apple would come to its senses
and give up or at least revamp its strategy.
But now that I see it in Macworld , I know
this cannot be.
Remember Mozilla, Netscape’s open-
source spin-off* that never really amounted
to anything? Apple is following exactly
the same approach, and I hope for its sake
that it doesn’t end up in the same place.
Open source seems to be all the rage
these days with software manufacturers.
As Apple’s product manager for Mac OS
X Server said in the article, “It’s as if we
had hired a huge bunch of programmers
for free.” Haven’t we seen the results of
this type of corporate greediness and
laziness before? Apple, there’s no such
thing as a free lunch.
Jeffrey Pall
via the Internet
Supporting Sherlock
1 ENJOYED ANDREW GORE’S COL-
umn “Where’s Sherlock?” (The Vision
Thing , June 1999). When I first saw ads
for Sherlock, I thought it was just more
Web-related hype and brushed it off.
Then I installed OS 8.5 and started to
take a closer look. I was very impressed. It
greatly simplifies Web searches, and index¬
ing my drives by content and searching for
files based on keyword content is really
fantastic. It has saved me so much time.
Sherlock is one of those how-did-I-
ever-live-without-it tools. I completely
agree that Apple should aggressively sup¬
port and market Sherlock. If only the
Web sites that maintain the search data¬
bases would get rid of stale URLs, the
efficiency and effectiveness of Web
searching would really improve!
Apple, don’t flush a good thing!
Sam Gasster
Los Angeles, California
4 NDREW GORE CORRECTLY
asserts that Sherlock is “the most
easy-to-use search technology on any
platform.” Not only that, but it renders
virtually instant, on-target results every
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Don’t Hold Back How
I AM SICK OF THE NAMBY-PAMBY
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Music for the Masses
WHY MP3 AND THE MAC WILL REVOLUTIONIZE THE MUSIC WORLD
C onvergence is the
bogeyman of media
megacorporations. In
die music industry, where
so much is made by so
many for doing so little,
the idea that artists can
now eliminate the
middleman and deliver
their content directly to their admirers is
a frightening thing indeed.
These music publishers should be
afraid—very afraid. Because MP3 has
finally arrived on the Mac. And once this
emerging standard for encoding and dis¬
tributing high-quality audio combines
with Mac users’ creative zeal, the result¬
ing tidal wave will be big enough to swal¬
low media moguls whole.
Special Delivery
In the last couple of months I’ve finally
had the opportunity to tinker with MP3,
an extension of the MPEG multimedia
file format now famous for housing
extremely good-sounding music in fairly
small sound files. And while audiophiles
are practically frothing at the mouth over
claims that MP3 sound quality is as good
as that of compact discs, one thing that
can’t be challenged is that MP3 files are
much smaller, about one-tenth the size of
the equivalent data on an audio CD. MP3
files can be downloaded over the Internet,
or you can create your own from your
personal CD collection by using MP3-
encoding software. Best of all, you can
download your own custom mixes to
pager-size portable MP3 players, in addi¬
tion to playing them on your Mac.
Diamond Multimedia recently an¬
nounced the S269 USB-based Rio PMP
500, the latest version of the leading MP3-
player hardware. The new Rio works with
any Mac with a USB port, can store two
hours of music on its built-in RAM, and has
a slot that can use removable SmartMedia
cards to add another hour of music to the
mix (see News, elsewhere in this issue).
Because MP3 players like the Rio store
music in RAM, they’re the tops in terms of
stability. There are no moving parts, so
there's nothing to bounce, jog, or otherwise
disrupt the playback of your favorite tunes.
The only thing holding back MP3 on
the Mac has been software. Around the
Macworld offices, we’ve been testing the first
two commercial Mac MP3-encoding pro¬
grams: Xing Technology's $30 AudioCata-
lyst (already in version 2.0) and Casady &
Greenes S49 Soundjam MP. which should
be available by the dine you read this.
With MP3 encoders like these, copy¬
ing an audio CD to your hard drive is
about as easy as sticking it in your
CD-ROM drive. In both Soundjam anil
the shareware MacAmp, you can create
custom song sequences (or playlists) by
clicking on and dragging tracks from the
CDs you’ve recorded and from MP3
tracks you’ve downloaded from the Net.
Then there’s the issue of sound qua¬
lity. I’m here to tell you that at higher sam¬
pling rates—say, 144kHz—I simply can’t
tell the difference between songs recorded
in MP3 and those on a conventional audio
CD. I'm sure there is a difference—I just
can’t hear it. And truth be told, I’m not
that concerned about what I can’t hear.
Revolution 10
Copying your favorite CDs to your hard
drive is great. But the real power of
MP3 will be in the sounds you tune in
over the Internet.
Ever wonder why a CD can cost
upwards of SIS when the cost of materi¬
als is about a buck? Distribution. Market¬
ing. Advertising. Corporate profits. By
the time everyone’s done getting their
share of that price tag, the artist is left
with only a modest percentage of the take.
With MP3, suddenly the infrastruc¬
ture disappears from the equation. Musi¬
cians can charge a couple of dollars for an
entire CD’s worth of music, keep most of
the proceeds (considerably
more than they’d see front the
sale of a CD), and you, the
consumer, save a bunch and
get your music in easily man¬
aged files. Ever try to mix a
custom Mini Disc or audio-
tape? Let’s just sav the inter¬
faces were designed by the
same folks who invented
VCRs. With MP3, you get to
use your Mac as your audio
dashboard. You can even use
plug-in “skins” to completely
customize your MP3 player’s
interface. How cool is that?
Now that MP3 is finally
on the Mac, the revolution it
embodies will only accelerate.
The Mac is already the platform of
choice for many musicians. And with
MP3, those musicians will be able to
encode their works for distribution over
the Internet with ease.
Just add a few digital groupies who
will breathlessly follow a musician’s files
around the Web, and the record compa¬
nies won’t have any enticements left to
offer the aspiring rock virtuoso, m
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graphics
Web Sites Take On Application Roles
CREATE AND MODIFY
GRAPHICS THROUGH
YOUR WEB BROWSER
by Stephen Beale
T he next time you need
to touch up a photo or
convert an image tile,
you may have an extra
software tool at your
disposal; your Web browser. A
handful of developers, includ¬
ing Extensis (800/796-9798,
www.extensis.com) and a new
company called Avivo (415/
2 42 - 0400, www. a to m z . eo m),
have introduced Web sites that
let you perform graphics oper¬
ations that would otherwise be
handled by stand-alone soft¬
ware, As Internet bandwidth
increases and developers look
for new sources of revenue,
such Web-based graphics apps
could become commonplace.
Web sites that duplicate
commercial software's features
are nothing new. For example,
Netstudio.com offers tools for
creating simple Web graphics.
However, these sites are largely
geared toward casual users.
The new Web application sites
target graphics professionals.
Creative Pros Extensis,
best known as a developer of
graphics plug-ins, has launched
3 a Web site called Creativepro
* .com that offers discussion
1 forums, sendee directories,
links to industry news sources,
and information about soft¬
ware products from Extensis
and other companies. Nothing
unusual—but Extensis has
ambitious plans to offer a vari¬
ety' of graphics services via
the site, including PDF-to-
HTA1L file conversions, digi¬
tal photo enhancement, and
p i >n ft >1 i o hosti n g. E xte n s i s
plans to offer its first Web-
based application*—-a PDF pre-
flighting tool based on its Pre¬
flight Pro software—shortly
after Creativepro.com goes
public in July; Extensis won’t
charge for basic PDF pre¬
flighting but eventually will
offer a more fully featured ver¬
sion of the service for a fee.
Atomic Power Avivo, a
new company founded by ex-
Macromedia employees, has
launched a Web site—www
.atomz.com—that will offer
free software applications for
Web developers. The first app,
Atomz Search, lets you quickly
produce search engines for
your Web site. Using tools on
Atomz.com, you can create
customized results pages that
conform to your site's design.
The free sendee is limited
to Web sites with fewer than
500 pages, and you must
include a “Powered by Atomz
.com' 1 logo on die search page.
The company offers a premi¬
um sendee, beginning at S3Q
continues
www.ma-cworId.com Seplcmber 1999 27
news
per month, for larger Web sites
or those that don’t want to dis¬
play the logo. The premium
service also provides automatic
reindexing of your site; with
die free service, you must peri¬
odically hit a reindex button
accessed through Atornz.com.
Avivo plans to offer other
server applications, including
workflow management and
dynamic generation of data
and graphics.
Extra! Extra! Targeting
the newspaper business,
B-Linked (800/254-6533,
www .b-linked .com) and
iPrint (www.iprint.com) have
teamed up to offer the Virtual
Ad Design Studio (VADS), a
service that allows adv ertisers
to create and customize print
ads using a Web browser. An
advertiser can take an ad cre¬
ated for one newspaper, mod¬
ify the copy, fonts, graphics,
and other elements, and then
redistribute the ad to other
publications.
Other Vendors Although
they have not announced
plans for Web-based applica¬
tions, most of the leading
graphics vendors have sub¬
stantially stepped up their
Web presence.
In May, Macromedia
announced Shockwave.com,
a new business venture that
will manage an entertain¬
ment-oriented Web site of
the same name (see “Macro¬
media Bets the Store on
Flash 4,” NewSy August 1999).
MetaCreations offers direct
links to online interest
groups through menu com¬
mands in its software pack¬
ages. For example, the Bryce-
Talk command in Bryce 4
accesses an online forum for
Bryce users. And Adobe, as
part of an ongoing restruc¬
turing, says it will beef up the
electronic-commerce features
on its Web site, making it
easier for customers to buy
the company’s software.
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MP3 Audio
Tunes Up on
the Mac
NEW SOFTWARE LETS
YOU CREATE MP3 TITLES
by Macworld Staff
M P3, the audio for¬
mat that has gained
a huge following on
the Web, is tuning
up to occupy center
stage on the Macintosh.
Apple’s QuickTime 4 soft¬
ware, which shipped in June,
lets you add MP3 audio to
QuickTime movies, and
Macromedia’s recently an¬
nounced Flash 4 software
puts MP3 in Flash anima¬
tions. Now Casady & Greene
(800/359-4920, www.casadyg
.com) has taken MP3 a step
further by offering a $49 pro¬
gram that lets you encode
MP3 audio in addition to
playing it back.
Sound Jam MP, sched¬
uled to ship by the time you
read this, will include a cus¬
tomizable player with con¬
trols similar to those found in
AppleCD Audio Player. An
application programming
interface for the player will
allow developers to create
different looks, including
players with large buttons or
irregular shapes. Casady &
Greene also plans to offer a
collection of MP3 songs. A
version of the software will
be bundled with Diamond
Multimedia’s forthcoming
Rio PMP 500 digital-audio
player, the first .MP3 player
to offer Mac support.
MP3 has become a pop¬
ular music format for the
Web, thanks to its compact
file sizes and near-CD-qual-
ity audio. You can store as
Wacom Tablets Get USB Interface
USERS OF iMACS AND BLUE POWER MAC G3 SYSTEMS
can now enjoy the benefits of pressure-sensitive graphics
tablets. Wacom (800/922-6613, www.wacom.com) has
announced USB versions of its Intuos pens and tablets (see
Reviews, January 1999). Five models are available: 4 by 5
inches, S200; 6 by 8 inches, $384; 9 by 12 inches, $510; 12
by 12 inches, $510; and 12 by 18 inches, $820. All tablets
ship with one pen; the 9-by-12 and 12-by-18 models also
include the Intuos 4D Mouse.— MACWORLD STAFF
many as 2,300 MP3 titles on
an 8GB hard drive. MP3 has
raised concerns in the re¬
cording industry because it
makes it easy to pirate copy¬
righted music. However,
some musicians have em¬
braced the format because
they can offer samples of
their recordings directly to
potential fans, bypassing the
music industry’s convention¬
al distribution channels.
Along with Sound Jam
MP, Casady & Greene has
released upgrades to Conflict
Catcher and Spell Catcher, as
well as two new products,
iLiner and Speed Startup.
iLiner is a $49 outlining tool
that lets you take notes while
viewing QuickTime content;
it also provides access to the
automatic document-summa¬
rization features in Apple’s
Sherlock software. Speed
Startup, a $19.95 utility avail¬
able exclusively through the
Casady & Greene Web site,
speeds system boot-ups,
especially on PowerBooks or
Macintosh systems with large
amounts of RAM.
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Photoshop
Upgrade Gets
Web Savvy
IMAGEREADY ROLLED
INTO PHOTOSHOP 5.5
by Stephen Beale
W hen Adobe Sys¬
tems (800/685-
3612, www.adobe
.com) released
Photoshop 5.0
last year, many users thought
the company had made a big
mistake. Rather than add s
enhanced Web-graphics capa- 2
bilitdes to its image-editing |
powerhouse, Adobe chose to 2
28 September 1999 A/IACWORLD
place those features into a
new program called I mage -
Ready. The problem—aside
from weaknesses in Image-
Ready itself—was that you
still had to use Photoshop to
begin many of your Web-
graphics projects. Meanwhile,
Macromedia introduced
FireWorks, a much
more successful pro¬
gram that integrated
most of the functions
needed to create
images for die Web.
With Photoshop
5.5, Adobe appears to
have recogn \zed the
error of its ways. Many
of the Web-graphics
features previously
found in Image-
Ready have been
incorporated into
Photoshop. Other functions,
such as animation, image slic¬
ing, and JavaScript rollovers,
are available in a new version
of ImageReady that is bun¬
dled with—and tightly inte¬
grated with—the image-edit*
ing package. Instead of using
separate programs to create
Web animations and other
graphics, you can now do it all
in Photoshop. Adobe will no
longer offer ImageReady as a
separate progra m.
Web Features Photo¬
shop's new Web savvy is
apparent in many areas. For
example, in addition to dis¬
playing an out-of-gamut
warning when you specify an
unprintable color, Photoshop
5.5 can display a warning
when you specify a color out¬
side the 216-color Web-safe
palette. If you’re working on
a transparent GIF image,
Photoshop can now display
the transparency
The color-reduction and
optimization features previ¬
ously available in ImageReady
have been rolled into the big
program: a new Save For Web
| dialog box lets you experi-
> merit with different color
I palettes and visually compare
up to four versions of an
image. You can lock colors, so
they are not affected by
palette-reduction operations,
and son the palette based on
how often the colors are
used. As with
FireWorks, you can
also specify a targeted file
size and have the program
apply whatever compression
is needed to achieve it. A
gamma preview lets you see
images as they appear in Win¬
dows or the Mac OS (images
look darker in Windows).
If you want to slice or ani¬
mate the image, you can
launch ImageReady 2,0 from
within Photoshop.
Going to Print The
upgrade includes other
enhancements, most notably
new masking functions that
duplicate many features found
in Extensis MaskPro, Chroma-
G ra ph ies xMa gi c Mask, and
Ultimatte Knockout. xA new
Background Eraser makes it
easier to remove backgrounds,
and you can create complex
masks by drawing inner and
outer boundaries along an
object's edge.
New Actions in Photo¬
shop 5.5 automate the cre¬
ation of Web photo galleries,
complete with thumbnails
and HTML links to full-size
photos. You can also produce
photo packs that include mul¬
tiple sizes of a single image.
Adobe plans to ship the
$6 10 package by the time you
read this. Upgrades from
Photoshop 5.0 or Image-
Ready 1.0 will cost S129;
upgrades from earlier Photo¬
shop versions will cost S199.
Adobe also plans to offer a
retail version of Photoshop
5.0 LE for midrange users.
The software, which lacks
CM YK, color-m ana ge-
ment, and channels func¬
tions, will sell for less
than S200, Previously,
Adobe offered Photoshop LE
only as bundled software for
scanners or digital cameras.
j~ graphics
Canvas Update
Introduces
SpriteEffects
UPGRADE APPLIES IMAGE
FILTERS TO VECTORS
by Stephen Beale
D eneba Canvas 6, intro¬
duced in 199B, imple¬
mented a new tech¬
nology called Sprite-
Layers tliat lets you
ere a re soph i sti cated m a ski ng
and transparency effects using
bitmapped images and vector
graphics. Now, less than a year
later, Deneba Software (305/
5 96- 5644, www,deneba + com)
is preparing to ship Canvas 7,
an upgrade to the integrated
graphics software that adds
another new technology,
called SpriteEffects.
Vector Fitters Canvas
combines image-editing and
vector-graphics capabilides,
and the new SpriteEffects
function thus borrows from
both Adobe Photoshop and
Macromedia FrccHand, As
with Photoshop's Adjustment
layers, you can apply filters
such as Blur ami Sharpen to a
layer that affects any underly¬
ing graphic. But SpriteEffects
also work much like Free-
Hand lenses: you can use
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Develop/ elsewhere in this issue).
The 5699 RDC-5000, from Ricoh
(BOO/742-6410. www.ricohcpg
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2,3 million, or l r ?92 by 1 r 200.
pixels. The camera includes 2.3x
optical zoom and a USB connec¬
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and blue G3s. The S699 Photo PC
8Q0 P from Epson (BOO/463-7766.
www.epson.com), features a
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imum resolution of 1.600 by
1200 pixels. For the consumer
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1,252 by 864, pixels. Both Epson
cameras can download images
through USB or serial pods.
Astral Scans Expanding its
Astra line. Umax {800/562-0311,
www. u max .com) h as re leased
two new flatbed scanners for
home-office Mac users. The $129
Astra 2000U and $169 Astra
2100U both offer 36-bit color and
600-by-1,200 dpi resolution, with
USB ports for connection to iMacs
or blue G3s. The Astra 2100U fea¬
tures three programmable push
buttons to automate scanning,
direct copying to a connected
printer, or other operations. Umax
also announced it will bundle SCSI
cards with its PowerLook and
Mirage series scanners to allow
connection to blue G3 systems,
which lack a built-in SCSI port.
continues
Product
WATCH
Project Your iMac Let your
iMac's inner beauty shine on the
wall or through another monitor
The $99 t Pres enter, fro m Power R
(800/729-6970, www.powerr
.com), is a video adapter that lets
iMacs drive a rnuitimcdra projector,
external monitor, or television. The
adapter connects to the monitor
cable inside the iMac
Illustrator 8 Update Adobe
(800/833-6687, www.adobe
.com) released Illustrator 8,0.1, a
free update to the popular drawing
software. The patch fixes several
bugs, including one that causes
crashes under Mac OS 8,5,X.
Download the update at www
.adobe com/ prod in dex/il fust rator/
updateSOI .html.
PDF for 05 X Stone Design
(505/345-4800, www.stone.com)
has announced PStilJ, a PostScript-
to-PDF file-conversion program
that runs under Mac OS X Server
software. The Si 29 package,
scheduled to ship by the time you
read this, converts PostScript and
EPS files to Adobe's Portable
Document Format.
FileMaker Fix FileMaker (800/
325-2747, www.filemaker.com)
has released a free FileMaker Pro
update that fixes bugs and adds a
new data-validation feature. The
fatter aflows you to set up data
fields that validate whether
entries are numeric, date, or time
values. You can download the
FileMaker Pro 4,1 v2 updater from
wwwJilemaker.com/support/
41v2 release, html.— edited by
MICHAEL COWAN
Bezier drawing tools to modify
the size and shape of the
SpriteEffect—the area affected
by the filter—and you can
detach a SpriteEffect from one
object and apply it to others,
SpriteEffects have another
property unique to Canvas:
they let you apply Photoshop
fi 1 te rs—i n c l ud i n g th i rd - part) 7
plug-ins—to vector graphics,
as long as die filters support
Photoshop's Actions palette.
When you apply the filter, the
lens displays a rendered ver¬
sion of the vector graphic at a
resolution you define. How¬
ever, you can still edit the
drawing in its vector form, and
you can detach the lens and
apply it to other vector objects.
Other Goodies Along
with the SpriteEffects technol¬
ogy, Deneba has spruced up
the Canvas interface. The pro¬
gram's many palettes are con¬
solidated in a single menu,
and Canvas now includes a
Photo shop-style Navigator
window that makes it easy to
move around a document in
magnified views. You can also
modify vector objects while
viewing their stroke and fill
characteristics; previous ver¬
sions let you edit objects only
in a wireframe mode.
The program's Web capa¬
bilities have been spruced up
as well. You can create GIF
animations, experiment with
color-reduced palettes, and
preview up to four versions of
each image to see which set¬
tings offer the best trade-off
between file size and image
quality, Deneba has junked
Colada, the Java-based Web
export component of Canvas
6, and now provides direct
export of Dynamic HTML,
Deneba expects to ship the
S375 package this September.
1 multimedia
VR Toolbox
Prevails in
QTVR Suit
ROUNDABOUT LOGIC
PULLS COMPETING TITLES
by Macworld Staff
V R Toolbox (877/878-
6657, www.vrtoolbox
.com) has won a
legal battle with
Roundabout Logic
over the rights to QuickTime
VR (QTVR) authoring pro¬
grams sold by the former as
VR PanoWorx and VR
ObjeetWorx, Under the
terms of a recent settlement,
Roundabout Logic, which
offered the same software
under the respective names
Nodester and Widgetizer,
will no longer offer either of
those programs, VR Toolbox
will assume technical-support
responsibilities for Nodester
and Widgetizer and also
plans to offer upgrades to its
own versions,
Nodester, used to create
QTVR panoramas, and
Widgetizer, used to make
QTVR object movies, were
originally written by Econ
Technologies, a Florida pro¬
gramming shop, and pub¬
lished by Panimntion and
later Roundabout Logic. In
1998, Econ sold the rights to
both programs to a new com¬
pany called VR Toolbox.
Roundabout Logic sued,
claiming that it had exclusive
rights to the software; VR
Toolbox and Econ countered
that Econ was free to sell the
rights to another publisher.
VR Toolbox is a subsidiary of
Emery Manufacturing and
Equipment, a manufacturer
of QTVR object rigs. In
addition to VR PanoWorx
and VR ObjeetWorx, VR
Toolbox offers VR Scene-
Worx for creating multinode
QTVR movies, and The VR
Worx, a bundle of all three
programs.
Roundabout Logic has
issued a statement acknowl¬
edging VR Toolbox's owner¬
ship of the software. The
company failed to return calls
seeking additional comment.
Epson Joins MFP Fray with
Stylus Scan
A SCANT TWO MONTHS AFTER CANON INTRODUCED THE
first Mac-based multifunction peripheral, Epson
America (800/289-3776, www.epSOn.com) is getting
into the act, Epson's new Stylus Scan series incorpo¬
rates a scanner and ink-jet printer—comparable to the
Stylus Color 740—in one unit. Three models are avail¬
able. The $349 Stylus Scan 2000 features a sheetfed
scanner; the S499 Stylus Scan 2500 and $699 Stylus Scan 2500 Plus include
a flatbed scanner equivalent to the company's Perfection 636 model. The
Plus unit also sports an automatic document feeder. Alf three have USB ports
but no serial connections.— macworld staff
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Passing the Weight Test
From the moment you pick up one of the
“bronze” Power Books (the nickname
comes from the translucent bronze key¬
board), you can tell that Apple has given—
and taken away. The design generally
resembles that of the previous PowerBook
models, with a sleek black chassis; smooth,
rounded corners; and a pair of expansion
bays for storage devices and batteries. But
it’s just 1.7 inches thick—about a third of
an inch thinner than its predecessor—and
weighs in at 5.9 pounds with CD-ROM
drive and battery*
Thanks to its crash diet, the new
PowerBook is light and easy to handle.
but it still has a solid and resilient feel*
However, with the slimmer expansion
bay, storage devices and batteries designed
for Apple’s previous Power Books won’t fit
in the new one* Aside from VST Tech¬
nologies’ Zip and SuperDisk drives, there
are few products available at press time
that work with the new bay
Macworld Lab tested standard con¬
figurations of both new Power Book
models. One model features a 400MHz
03 CPU, and the other a 333MHz chip*
Both models include 64MB of RAM* an
ATI Rage LT Pro graphics controller
with 8MB of video memory, a 14*1-inch
active-matrix display, a lO/lOOBaseT
Ethernet connection, and a 56-Kbps
modem. The 400Ml 1/ model also fea¬
tures a I MB L2 cache, a 6GB hard drive,
and a DVD-ROM drive. The 333MHz
model sports a 5 12K L2 cache, a 4GB
bard drive, and a 24x CD-ROM drive*
At press time, you couldn’t order the
333MI Iz model with a DVD drive. Apple
says it will offer DVD as a build-to-order
option for the 333MHz model, but you
won’t he able to upgrade to DVD after
you’ve purchased the machine.
REAL PRQOUCTS
REAL RATINGS
Reviews you can trust: Macworld rates only final shipping products, not prototypes* What we review is what you can actually buy.
OUTSTANDING; ham VERY GOOD: MO GOOD: FLAWED: M UNACCEPTABLE; ♦
3 4 September 1999 MACWORLD
Macworld
LAB TEST
Bronze PowerBooks
Best results In red. Reference system in italics. MacBench 5.0 scores are
relative to those of a first-generation Power Mac G3/300, which is assigned
a score of 1,000 for each test
Apple PowerBook G3/400 -
Apple PowerBook G3/333 -
Apple Power Book G3/300
MACBENCH 5.0
Processor
Disk
Graphics
M.237
958
995
978
908
909
\LcnCtf tm t*On
1 1,543
1,435
1.420
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Behind Our Tests
For the full review, including detailed information on our tests, sec www
.macworkl.conV1999/09/rev»cws/ — Macworld Lab testing supervised by Cil Loyola
As you can see in the benchmark,
“Bronze PowerBooks,” the 400MHz
PowerBook G3 tar outpaced the 300MHz
reference system in processor performance
and also earned the top scores in our Disk
and Graphics tests. The 333MHz model
was less impressive, lagging slightly behind
the reference system in processor perfor¬
mance, slightly ahead in graphics perfor¬
mance, and about even in disk performance.
The likely culprit for the low Processor
score is die models smaller L2 cache. But
keep these numbers in perspective: diis is
still a wicked-fast laptop.
A Longer Life?
Thanks to die lower power consumption
of the latest G3 chips, along with new
power-management features in Mac OS
8.6, Apple claims that you can run these
laptops up to five hours on a single bat¬
ten', or ten hours when using two batter¬
ies. To achieve such long battery life, you
need to step down the CPU speed, using
the Energy Saver control panel. When
testing at full speed, we found that the
400MIlz model lasted for three hours
running a standard suite of business-
application tasks; the 333MHz version
kept its charge about a half hour longer.
When we ran this same suite on the pre¬
vious-generation 300MHz PowerBook
G3, also at full speed, we got three hours
of battery life under Mac OS 8.6 and
2 hours, 50 minutes under Mac OS 8.5.1.
Apple says that you can watch a DVD
feature movie (namely, Austin Powers)
twice on a single battery’s power. Again,
this claim is based on running the CPU
at a slower speed. At hill speed, we ran out
of power with about 30 minutes left to the
end of the second showing. Fortunately,
running at the slower CPU speed has no
effect on DVT) performance.
Our conclusion? While the bronze
PowerBooks offer a modest improvement
in battery life, the 400MHz unit also
offers considerably greater speed, mak¬
ing the aggregate a good step forward in
batter)’ life versus CPU performance.
Other Goodies
Portable users cannot live by battery life
alone. And here, the new PowerBooks
offer some nice improvements.
These are the first PowerBooks to
include built-in USB ports (two) and
FireWire connectivity, although the latter
is available only through Newer Tech¬
nology’s FireWire2Go PC Card. And
unlike Apple’s desktop models, which
have done away with older hardware
interfaces, the new PowerBooks still
include a SCSI port as well as a 4-Mbps
IrDA port. However, the ADB port is
gone and you get only one PC Card slot
instead of the traditional two. The new
PowerBooks also return a feature missing
from the previous generation of Apple
laptops: the ability to drive the internal
display and an external monitor simulta¬
neously. Earlier G3 models required a
separate graphics adapter to do this.
Along with these major additions, the
new models offer a host of small-but-
uscful improvements. It is now easier to
remove the keyboard if you want to access
internal components. Before, you had to
remove any devices in the expansion bays;
now you simply release two latches and
remove a keyboard-locking screw. Apple
also improved the design of the expan¬
sion-bay latches, making it more difficult
to accidentally eject a drive or battery.
The keyboard’s translucence, while
adding a nice design flair, occasionally
tricked us into thinking the caps lock key
was engaged. And if you use PC-emula-
tion software, you may lament the loss of
dedicated Delete, Insert, Print Scrn,
Scroll Lock, and Pause/Break keys, pre¬
viously available through the Power-
Book’s function keys. Also missing are
dedicated controls for ejecting PC Cards
and controlling mute, volume, and con¬
trast, although the latter three controls
are available through function keys.
The biggest problem we encountered
in our testing related to the PowerBooks’
USB implementation. The USB drivers
that shipped with the laptops don’t seem to
recognize the PowerBook Sleep function,
so putting the machines to sleep with an
attached, unpowered USB device (such as
a keyboard or mouse) caused a variety of
minor problems, including the occasional
system crash. We expect that Apple and
peripheral developers will provide updated
drivers that address this problem.
AAacworld's Buying Advice
Despite the SI,000 price difference, we
recommend the 400MHz PowerBook
G3 over the 333MI Iz model due to the
G3/400’s built-in DVD-ROM drive and
impressive performance numbers. How¬
ever, the slower model still delivers
plenty of laptop power for a mere
$2,499. Either PowerBook will satisfy
those hankering for a light load but
unwilling to give up features—or the
Mac OS—to achieve it.— Andrew gore
PowerBook G3/333
RATING: ffffVz PROS: Respectable battery
life; good value. CONS: Must order DVD at time
of purchase; possible stability problems related to
USB. COMPANY: Apple Computer (800/795-
1000, www.powerbook.apple.com). COMPANY'S
ESTIMATED PRICE: $2,499.
PowerBook G3/400
RATING: ♦MM PROS: Fast; DVD built-in.
CONS: May have some stability problems
related to USB. COMPANY: Apple Computer
(800/795-1000, www.powerbook.apple.com).
COMPANY'S ESTIMATED PRICE: $3,499.
www.macworld.com September 1 999 3 5
Reviews
Color Ink-Jet Printers
HP AND CANON CHALLENGE EPSON WITH NEW MODELS
U NTIL URGENTLY, EPSON AMI-R-
ica had the Mac ink-jet-printer
market pretty much to itself as
rivals focused their efforts on PC
users* But now that Apple is back
on its feet, Epson finally has some serious
competition, in the form of new printers
from Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Canon,
Macworld Lab tested Canon's $320
BJC-6000, Hewlett-Packard’s $300
DeskJet H82C and S400 DeskJet 895C,
and Epson’s $299 Stylus Photo 750 and
S499 Stylus Photo 1200. The DeskJet
895 C is a faster, network-ready version
of the four-color DeskJet 882C; both
target general business applications. The
BJC-6000, which lets you choose from
four- or six-color output, is another
general*purpose printer. The Epson
printers, sporting six-color printing
capabilities, target photo output* Epson
also offers two general-purpose Mac
printers, the Stylus Color 740 (f$ff-
tfnvVzttf, January 1999) and Stylus Color
900 (ffft; Reviews June 1999).
The results? If you have an older,
pre-USB Macintosh, Epson is still your
only option, because it’s the only manu¬
facturer that continues to offer a serial
port. But if your Mac is USB enabled,
all these printers offer top-notch output
for reasonable prices.
Output Quality
To test image quality, Macworld Lab pro¬
duced a set of output samples from each
printer and submitted them to a jury' for
evaluation. The samples included text,
photos, and line art. Jurors compared
each sample with the original print.
The HP printers feature four-color
output, while the other models offer six-
color output. Nevertheless, all five printers
scored high for photo quality. The HP
printers especially impressed us—their out¬
put quality on glossy paper rivaled the six-
color photos of the other tested models.
However, we noticed some striping when
printing photos on plain paper.
Although the Canon BJC-6000 uses
an optional six-color cartridge for pho¬
tos, our jury thought its default photo
output was slightly dark* In our first pass
with the Epson primers, magenta was too
strong and yellow too weak, but we were
able to correct this using Apple’s Color-
Sync 2.6.1 and Epson’s device profiles.
When printing black text from a
Microsoft Word document on plain bond
paper, the HP and Canon printers pro¬
duced excellent results, although the HP
models printed bold text a little heavily.
The Epson printers generated thin spi¬
der lines in bold text, but when printing
on photo ink-jet paper, they exhibited
excellent output quality.
One often overlooked issue with ink¬
jet printers is the durability of the prints,
Epson claims that photos produced on
its ink-jet printers will last two to three
years in normal sunlight. HP claims that
the carbon pigment in its black ink
allows documents to last substantially
longer than that in sunlight.
Print Speed
Print speed can be deceptive, because
most manufacturers quote the speed you
get at the printer’s lowest resolution, nm
at the higher resolutions required for the
best-looking output. In Macworld Lab’s
print tests, we timed output from two
programs—Microsoft Word and Adobe
Photoshop—at each printer’s maximum
resolution and at lower resolutions of
300 dpi (HP) or 360 dpi (Epson and
Canon), (The HP models print black ink
at up tu 600 dpi, but HP doesn’t quote
the maximum color resolution. The
Epson and Canon models print black and
color at 720 by 1,440 dpi.)
As we expected, the higher-quality
pages took dramatically longer to print-
in some cases, ten times longer—than die
low-resolution versions. But the perfor¬
mance champ was clearly die HP 895C. In
our high-resolution Photoshop test, it
produced an image in 7 minutes, com¬
pared with about 10 minutes for the other
printers. When printing die Word docu¬
ment at low resolution, the HP 895C
cranked out 6.6 pages per minute (ppm)
versus 4.9 ppm for the Canon, 4.3 ppm for
the HP 882C, 1.8 ppm for the Epson Sty¬
lus Photo 750, and 1.2 ppm for the Stylus
Photo 1200. The latter speed translates
into a 6-minutc wait for 10 pages.
Paper Handling
All five printers can handle a variety of
paper sizes, from 4-hy-6-inch cards up to
banner-length paper. The Epson Stylus
Photo 1200, the large-format version of die
Stylus Photo 750, can print full-bleed on
tabloid stocks. All of the models can print
on 110-pound paper stock, but the BJC-
6000 can handle up to 143-pound stocks.
As with all ink-jet printers, you get the best
output quality, especially for photographs,
when printing on glossy photo paper.
The HP printers feature a front¬
loading paper path, reducing the amount
3 6 September 19 99 MACWORLD
of desk space they take up, HP's design
also protects the input tray, making the
printer more child resistant than the
models from Canon and Epsom
Consumables
Among the printers reviewed here,
Canon's BJC-600Q has the most flexible
ink system. The box includes a black print
head with a black-ink tank, and a color
prim head with tanks for cyan, magenta,
and yellow inks. Each print head lasts
5,000 to 6,000 pages; the tanks themselves
last 500 to 840 pages. You can replace
individual tanks as they run out—a great
feature, because sometimes you 1 1! run out
of one color long before the others are
depleted. For six-color printing, you need
to buy a $42.95 photo print head with
tanks for black, light cyan, and light
magenta inks. You install this next to the
three-color print head, replacing the
black-ink cartridge.
The BJC-6000 also features a useful
low-ink warning that shows up in your
Mack Print Progress dialog box.
The Epson Stylus Photo printers
feature two ink cartridges, one for black
and one for the other five colors. A soft¬
ware utility informs you if ink levels are
low, but you get less warning than the
Canon printer provides.
Although some HP printers offer a six-
color printing option, the 895C and 882C
arc limited to four colors: one cartridge
for black and one for cyan, yellow, and
magenta. Neither printer, nor the included
software, features a low-ink warning.
Connectivity
Epson k printers are the dear winners here,
because each provides a serial connection
tor older Macs, in addition to a parallel
port lor PCs and USB for LMacs and blue
G3s. You can also prim directly from
Epson's PhotoPC 750Z digital camera.
The Canon and HP printers limit their
Mac connectivity to USB. Worse, Canon's
USB connection kit is available only as a $70
option; the printer itself costs $250. Ml
three companies offer Ethernet options for
their printers, except HP’s DeskJet 882C.
Software
Epson's longtime commitment to the
Mac community shows in its software.
Of the printers reviewed here, only
Epson’s models include bundled software
for the Mac. The Stylus Photo 750
includes Polaroid Phocomax Pro for
image editing, ArcSoft Photoprinter 2,0
for creating photo layouts, and ArcSoft
Photobase 2.0 for keeping image data¬
bases, The Stylus Photo 1200 includes
Adobe Photoshop 5,0 LE, Vivid Details’
Test Strip 2i), and a trial version of
Alta mini's Genuine Fractals 2,0,
Epson’s printer driver isn't too shabby,
either, offering extensive color-manage¬
ment and image-adjustment features.
However, it would be nice if the software
incl tided a Return To Default button.
Canon’s printer driver offers simple
adjustments in its basic operating mode
hut includes an advanced option that lets
you tweak individual colors. And it sports
that elusive Return To Default button we
wish other manufacturers would offer.
Canon's software also permits two- and
four-up printing.
HP’s driver is also simple: just
choose your paper and desired output
quality, and you're set for great output.
HP's software also puts a printer icon
on the desktop, permitting drag-and-
drop printing. However, some features
HP offers on the Windows side, such as
its cartridge-alignment utility and Web-
Smart printing software, are not avail¬
able for the Macintosh.
Macworld's Buying Advice
All of the printers reviewed here offer
excellent output quality, so the decision
hoils down to what you want to do with
them. For home users, the low price and
child-resistant design of HP's DeskJet
882C make it a good choice. For small
businesses, the versatility and large ink
supply of Canon's BJC-6000 make for a
winning combination, although HP's
DeskJet 895C, along with Epson’s Stylus
Color 740 and Stylus Color 900, are also
worth considering. Budget-minded pho¬
tographers and graphics professionals
should consider the Epson Stylus Photo
1200 for its tabloid prints and color-
ad justmem capabilities.— kivin mitcheu
Battling
Ink-Jet Printers
Company
Product
Mouse Rating
Company's
Estimated
Price
Contact
Pros
Cons
Canon USA
BJC-6000
MM
I320‘
300/652-2606
www.ccsi.canon.conn
Excellent output quality;
flexible ink system.
Mo serial port; USB available
only In separate kit; photo
ink cartridge costs extra.
Epson America
Stylus Photo 750
•Ml
5299
800/463-7766
www.epson.com
Excellent photo quality:
serial and USB interfaces;
good software
Mediocre text quality
on plain paper.
Stylus Photo 1200
MM
U99
BOO/463-7766
www.epson.com
Excellent photo quality
serial and USB interfaces;
good software;
can print tabloid size.
Mediocre text quality
on plain paper.
Hewlett-Packard
DeskJet S82C
MM
1300
300/752-0900
www. h pawn
Excellent output quality;
quiet.
No serial port;
no low-mk indicator.
DeskJet B9SC
MM
1400
000/752-0900
www.hp.com
Excellent output quality;
quiet; fast.
No serial port
no low-ink indicator.
* includes the optional S 70 USB connection kit
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Reviews
USB CD-RW Drives
NEW OFFERINGS FROM LACIE,
W HEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT.
it’s amazing that CD-rewritable
(CD-RW) drives work at all
with USB, Although the bus
offers a respectable throughput
of 12 M b ps , va r i o us d e v i ces s h a re that
bandwidth* A printer may not care if
another device is using the bus and caus¬
ing a delay, but CD-RW drives must burn
all the information at a steady rare; if they
run out of information before complet¬
ing the session, the disk becomes useless.
lb see if CD-RW drives could func¬
tion in the world of USB, Macworld Lab
tested QPS s Que, Sony’s Spressa L7SB
CRX100E/X, and LaCie’s 226 CDRW-
USB, We found that all three drives deliv¬
ered consistently, differing primarily in
price, speed, and backup ability.
All three drives can record on CD-R
(write-once) media and CD-RW (rewrit¬
able) media and can read from both
CD-R and CD-RW* Using the standard
notation—CD-R recording speed, fol¬
lowed by CD-RW recording speed, then
reading speed—the QPS is rated at
4x2 X8X, the Sony at 4x2x6x, and the
LaCie at 2x2x6x t
The Sony and QPS drives burned
600MB onto a CD-R in 18 minutes, while
the LaCie took 37 minutes* (By compar¬
ison, the fastest SCSI recorders can burn
the same data in 9 minutes.) All three
recorders burned the same data onto a
CD-RW in 37 minutes. To increase the
odds of a successful recording, the QPS
stores information in a 2MB buffer; the
Sony and LaCie use a 1MB buffer, stan¬
dard for SCSI recorders* In our tests,
QPS, AND SONY PLAY WELL
QPS's Que (top) and Sony's Spressa
buffer size didn’t affect performance.
Copying a 600MB CD to the iMac’s
hard disk took 14 minutes (the fastest you
can transfer data over USB) for the Sony,
15 minutes for the LaCie, and 18 min¬
utes for the QPS. Read speed isn’t as crit¬
ical as write speed, however, since most
people will use the iAlac’s faster (24x)
internal CD-ROM drive.
The Software Edge
The QPS and LaCie drives ship with
Adaptec’s Toast 3.8 for recording, while
the Sony comes with the significantly less
intuitive Discribe 2*4.1 from CharisMac,
You can’t simply drop data on Discribe
and record, as you can with Toast; you
must first decide whether this is a new
recording or one you’ve already saved,
specify a format (HFS, ISO, or audio),
choose your files, confirm your selection,
and then fmfilly begin recording.
On the other hand, Dantz Develop¬
ment’s Retrospect backup software sup¬
ports only the Sony Spressa. Dantz says
the next version of Retrospect (due later
WITH USB
this year) should support the LaCie, while
support for the QPS is pending based on
further testing*
Apple recommends that iMac users
update their firmware to version 1*2 to
ensure proper operation of USB devices.
Conveniently, both the QPS and LaCie
drives provide this update on CD; Sony
| plan s to incl ude the u p d a te w i t li reco rile rs
1 that ship in August.
Outward Appearances
You can tell from a distance what the QPS
drive is up to—the large LED on the front
is green when the drive is attached and
ready to go, orange when the drive is read¬
ing, and red when it’s writing. The LaCie’s
small LED simply turns red to signal
recording, while die Sony Spressa is even
less informative—whether the drive is
reading or writing, the light is always
amber and always blinking. All three
drives have audio-out and headphone
jacks with volume controls, but those fea¬
tures work only on PCs—not on Macs*
Macworld's Buying Advice
If you can live without backup for the
moment, choose the QPS Que; it’s the
least expensive of the three and by far
the most colorful. If backup is a priority,
go with the Sony Spressa CRX1Q0E/X
(the only drive Retrospect supports at
press rime) and get a copy ofToast 4,0 for
more-intuitive recording. Both drives are
a better deal than the LaCie 226 CDRYV-
USB—it’s almost as expensive as the Sony
drive, yet its writable speed is only half
that of the other two.— kevin mitchell
CD-RW Drives Compared
Mouse
List
Write/Rewrite/
Company
Product
Rating
Price
Contact
Read Speed
Buffer
Pros
Cons
LaCie
226 CDRW USfl
IM
S3 79
503/8*14-4500
wwwJijetexom
2x2x6x
1MB
Updatable firmware,
Slower at recording;
no Retrospect support,
QPS
Cue
im
S299
000/559*4777
wwvv.qps*inc,corFi
4x2 *8x
2MB
Lowest price; largest buffer;
color coordinated.
No Retrospect Support,
Sony
Spressa USB
CRXtQOE/X
Wv>
$399
SOQ/352-7669
www.sony.cnm
4x2x6*
1M8
Retrospect support,
NonintultMe software
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C To ahead, upgrade to that new G3 without sacrificing the SCSI peripherals
you depend on. And in case you didn't know, Adaptec SCSI cards support Apple's
old SCSI Manager and newer SCSI Manager 4.3 devices so you can connect to
whatever SCSI peripheral you might be using. But it gets even better. Adaptec
SCSI significantly outperforms Apple's previous built-in SCSI, enabling your
Jaz, scanner, and other peripherals to operate at peak performance. So if you want
to upgrade to a new blue G3 without sacrificing anything, get an Adaptec SCSI
card. For more information visit www.adaptec.com/mac.
Reuleuis
Audio CD-Writing Software
PROFESSIONAL CD-MASTERING APPLICATIONS MIND YOUR I
C REATING CUSTOM AUDIO
CD-ROMs is no longer ;m exotic
pastime practiced by those blessed
with more money than sense, CD-
ROM writers, or burners, are now
widely available and affordable enough
for us common folk, and they come with
software so simple that a reasonably
bright chimpanzee could bum a CD.
As easy and economical as this process
may be T the software that ships with today's
CD-RO M bu m e rs—u sua 11 y Ad a p tecs
Toast—isn’t full-featured enough to pro¬
duce truly professional audio CDs. If you
want to create discs without audible gaps
between tracks, tracks that cross fade into
each other, or an audio master CD for a
CD-mastertng house, you need Adaptec's
Jam 2.5, Digidesign's MasterList CD 2.1,
or Emagie's Wave Burner 1.0. The one you
select depends on your hardware, the
intended purpose of your CD, and your
tolerance for an unintuitive interface.
Hold the Toast, Please
Unlike Toast, which produces both data
and audio CDs, the three applications we
reviewed create only audio CDs that con¬
form to the Red Bonk standard. All three
let you work wi th die minutiae of Red Book
audio—the P and Q subcodes that control
such aspects of audio CDs as copy protec¬
tion and index numbering. The apps also
let you create cross fades between tracks and
tweak the volume of individual tracks.
Although none of the three requires
special audio cards (you no longer need an
add-on audio board to use MasterList
CD), hardware is still a consideration.
MasterList CD* for example, lets you
monitor your tracks through Digidesign's
audio cards, which output sound at higher
bit rates than Apple’s 16-bit Sound Man¬
ager Wave Burner offers similar support
for Emagic’s Audiowerk cards, but the
version we tested doesn't yet support
Digidesign cards. Likewise, MasterList
CD won't recognize die Emagic cards,
jam is content to route Sound through any
card that has a Sound Manager driver.
Another consideration is the kind of
work you do. MasterList CD is intended
for professional users who prepare refer¬
ence CDs for duplication. Unlike die other
applications, it lets you set up to 100 refer¬
ence points within a CD track
list; you can compare the vol¬
ume among several tracks by
calling up different locations in
the playlist.
Complete though Master-
List CD may he, its interface is
anything but friendly, There
are very few graphical elements
here—mostly number fields
and dialog boxes. Also, unlike
Jam and Wave Burner, Master-
List CD doesn't support drag
and drop; you must add tracks via a dialog
box rather than simply dragging sound
files into a track list. And, regrettably, Mas¬
terList C2L> is copy protected.
Riding the Wave
Wave Burners interface is a different story.
This program looks very much like an
audio editor, complete with waveforms and
graphic handles that you drag to adjust the
length and shape of crossfades. You can also
increase or decrease the gap between tracks
by dragging; simply click on the track and
drag it left or right. Like Jam, Wive Burner
has a preview feature that plays all the tran¬
sitions from track to track sequentially—
help fid when you want to review the pac¬
ing of your CD. And WaveBumer lets you
record audio directly into the program; the
other two applications require that you first
record audio into a separate program.
Sticky Jam
Jam s interface is much like Ibasr's. Tr> cre¬
ate a Lrack list, you drag and drop files into
Jam's main window. From there you can
create cross fades using the MasterList
Doing the Wave With its waveform interface, Emagic's Wave-
Bumcr 1.0 makes it easy to create crossfades.
'S AND Q'S
method: choose a crossfade type; set the
duration of die cross fade in a numeric box;
and determine whether it occurs presplice,
centered, or postsplice. As with Toast, you
can adjust the RAM cache, preventing
underrun errors, and test each track indi¬
vidually before committing to the burn.
One annoyance l hope Adaptec will
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Audio-mastering engineers who own Digi¬
design audio cards should ignore Master-
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is also perfectly capable, but WaveBumer
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Jam 2.5
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Peak 2.0
BUGS MAR OTHERWISE POWERFUL AUDIO EDITOR
A udio editors art the
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create special effects, and to convert one
sound format into another. The long-
awaited update to the popular audio edi¬
tor Peak, from Berkeley Integrated Audio
Software (BIAS), has the potential to take
Mac digital audio editing to new heights.
But although Peak 2.03 sports a variety
of interface enhancements and new fea¬
tures, bugs mar its power.
Take a Peak Peak 2 03 lets you open a QuickTime
movie to edit its soundtrack.
Peak's editing features are complete
and well designed. You can zoom in to
make edits at the single-sample level and
set markers to navigate a large document
quickly. Peak 2.03 adds tape-style scrub¬
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and backward slowly.
Like all audio editors, Peak displays a
waveform window that graphically
depicts the sound you're manipulating.
On-screen volume meters dance as a
sound plays, while a counter ticks off
elapsed time. The program also offers
unlimited undo's and lets you undo one
operation without affecting others.
Peak 2.0's audio-processing features
are also dramatically improved. With its
DSP (digital signal processing) menu, you
can change the sample rate, create fades,
remove clicks, change a sound's pitch
while retaining its duration, and much
more. Unfortunately, Peak lacks high-
quality bit-depth reduction.
Third-party plug-ins expand Peak's
processing repertoire. The new version
adds support for TDM-format plug-ins,
the mainstays of professionals who use
high-end Digidesign audio hardware.
For the rest of us, Peak supports Adobe
Premiere-format plug-ins (see the
accompanying review). You can create
envelopes that gradually apply a Pre¬
miere plug-in, or apply a plug-in in real
rime—that is, get the effect without actu¬
ally modifying the sound file.
Many of Peak’s other new features will
appeal to audio and video professionals.
For example, you can open QuickTime
movies and modify their soundtracks, and
a new batch processor lets you automate
format-conversion and DSP chores with¬
out scripting. Peak’s playlist feature lets
you define regions that play back sequen¬
tially And if you have Adaptec's Toast, you
can burn audio CDs directly from Peak,
using the playlist to define each track.
Finally, musicians with sampling key¬
boards and modules can use Peak to edit
samples and transfer them among instru¬
ments, The handy new Loop Surfer com¬
mand makes it easy to locate the ideal
loop points for samples.
Peak’s keyboard- and tool-bar-
customizing features are terrific, but the
tool-bar icons are too small and cryptic. It's
also worth noting that Peak uses a copy¬
protection scheme: to install the program
on an iMacora blue-and-white PowerMac
G3 t you must contact BIAS for a text key.
Peak’s documentation is thorough,
but the manual's index is abysmal. Worst
of all, Peak crashes now and then.
Macworld's Buying Advice
Peak 2.03 is an exceptionally powerful,
versatile program. It could be more reli¬
able, hut BIAS has a solid track record of
delivering free bug-fixes, so there's hope
that Peak will stabilize over time. If you
need Peak's power now, don’t hesitate to
buy—just be sure to save often.— jim he id
RATING: m PROS: Versatile; innovative plug¬
in support CON Si Copy-protected; buggy; no
high-quality bit-depth reduction. COMPANY:
Berkeley Integrated Audio Software {8QQ/775-
2427. yvww.bias-inc.com). LIST PRICE: $499-
Peak Plug-Ins
FILTERS ADD PIZZAZZ TO PEAK
L ooking to expand your
collection of audio-processing
tools? A plug-in library might be
just the ticket. Two recent
entries, Waves* Native Power
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Unfortunately for iMacusers, the plug¬
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Macworld's Buying Advice
Native Power Pack II is best suited to
well-heeled audio engineers who need
classic sweetening and top sound quality.
Hyperprism Plug-in Pack is ideal for
musicians who need solid basic effects—
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RATING: MM PROS: Superb sound quality:
easy interface. CONS: No printed documentation.
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BRUSHES BOOST INDISPENSABLE VIDEO
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F eeling somewhat inspired bv
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those tools is Commotion 2,0, the latest
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Building on its predecessor’s facilities for
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QuickTime movies into RAM, so you
can preview short video clips (or long
clips, if you have enough memory) at
their full size and frame rate. Because
most single shots in a movie tend to be
short—and effects sequences are even
shorter—a few seconds of video are
usually all you need for the kinds of
effects you create in Commotion.
Commotion’s powerful spline tools
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using an Adobe Illustrator-like pen took
you can then animate these rotosphnes
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program’s motion-tracking features to
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twists to version 2,0’s rotospline features
are that you can now simply grab the pen
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offer impressive speed and performance.
Even complicated brushes paint smooth¬
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Commotion 2.0 should appeal to effects
creators who have been relying on
Meta Creations 1 Painter for natural-media
video painting. Although Commotion
lacks Painter's full suite of extraordinary
paint tools, it offers a much better inter¬
face for painting on moving video.
FX Filters
Commotion 2.0 not only supports After
Effects plug-ins but also adds a timeline
interface that lets you animate plug-in
parameters just as you would in After
Effects. The timeline lists the filter's
properties in a column and lets you
define multiple, separate keyframes for
each property. To set a keyframe, you
simply drag the current time marker to
a new location on the timeline and
change the value of the property you
want to animate. Although the timeline
lacks velocity and function curves, its
simple linear and ease-in, ease-out inter¬
polations between frames offer all the
control you'll need for most effects.
New users should note that filters in
Commotion are destructive. Applying
the effects alters the movie’s frames; you
can't go back and tweak a filter’s settings
without reverting to the last saved ver¬
sion and reapplying the filter.
If you've used an earlier version of
Commotion, you'll notice that the cur¬
rent version replaces many of the basic
filters with equivalent (but faster) filters
from ICE. In addition to offering
improved performance, the new filters
support hardware acceleration using
BluelCE hardware.
One of the new filters, Motion Text,
lets you create and animate type. Unfor¬
tunately, its controls aren’t as interactive
as they could be. To add a title to a
movie, for example, you select the
Motion Text filter and enter your text in
a somewhat clunky modal dialog box. In
addition, you can have only one font and
type size per title.
From the Motion Text dialog box.
you set parameters and see the results in
a tiny preview window. In addition to the
usual size, color, and position parame¬
ters, Commotion lets you specify hori¬
zontal and vertical scaling, feathering,
drop shadows, and curve (as defined by
two points of a spline). Instead of using
interactive controls to specify position or
spline points, however, you control these
parameters numerically. A simple inter¬
face that lets you click within the preview
window to define position and curve
would be a nice addition.
The ability to animate text within
Commotion rather than After Effects is
very handy and saves time you would oth¬
erwise spend switching between the two
programs. Because its so much faster to
animate text in After Effects, however,
you'll probably want to use the Motion
Text plug-in for only the simplest jobs.
Macworld's Buying Advice
Commotion 2.0 isn’t a huge upgrade
over die last version, but its animatable
filters, Motion Text filter, and FX Brush¬
es are handy and well implemented.
They’re also a promising sign that Puf¬
fin is aiming to expand the program’s
range beyond simple rotoscoping. What-
ever the future holds, Commotion 2.0 is
an indispensable tool for mod on-effects
professionals .—sen long
RATING: MM PROS: Rotosplines and RAM
playback for creating mattes; supports After
Effects filters. CONS: Motion Text interface could
be more interactive. COMPANY: Puffin Designs
(800/401-0003, www.puffindesIgnsxQm). LIST
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G3 configuration has the same
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erator with 16MB of video memory, a
9GB U!tra2 Wide SCSI hard drive, and
a 32x CD-ROM drive (this is similar to
Apple's Better configuration, except for
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blue G3 models, the system ships with a
IQ/lOOBaseT Ethernet connection but
no modem, although you can add an
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also get two USB ports and two Fire¬
Wire ports, which will come in handy
now that more FireWire peripherals are
available. The system includes four PCI
slots, but with the graphics accelerator
and Ultra2 Wide SCSI card installed,
only two slots are available.
New G3 systems ship with Mac OS
8.6, but our chosen reference system, a
Power Mac G3/400, ran Mac OS 8.5.L
To isolate any OS-related performance
differences, we tested the new r G3 under
both versions. The results were generally
predictable (see “Faster by a Nose”).
However, the new system running Mac
OS 8.6 scored slightly lower than its
counterpart running OS 8.5.1 on the
Graphics test, which appears to be a con¬
sequence of the new version of Quick¬
Draw in Mac OS 8.6.
Macworld's Buying Advice
Apple's PowerMacintosh G3/450 retains
an under-$3,000 price tag while offering
a modest performance boost. If you fre¬
quently perform such hardware-intensive
tasks as digital-video creation, 3-D ren¬
dering, or high-resolution photo retouch¬
ing, give it a close look,—S tephen seals
RATING: MM PROS: Fast; good price; easy to
add expansion hardware. CONS: Uneconomic
mouse; no serial port; limited PCf slots COM¬
PANY: Apple Computer (800/795-1000, www
apple.com). LIST PRICE; $2,859,
Faster by a Nose
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EZcolor has two main limitations. First, it
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but this doesn't a I ways work. 1 f you J re
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Second, the quality of EZcolor profiles
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corrections, you’re stuck, because profiling
requires that the scanner use consistent
settings every rime. If your scanner doesn't
have enough dynamic range to capture
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resulting profile will probably block up
your shadows. Finally, scanners are
designed to scan photos, anti the software
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paper If you’re scanning from something
else, the results will he less reliable.
We obtained good results for ink-jet
printers using relatively inexpensive
flatbeds, but don't even think about pro¬
filing a dye-sublimation printer using
this technology.
Macworld's Buying Advice
MonacoEZcoIor is ideally suited to pro-
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AppleTalk to IP Migration Suite
PRODUCT BUNDLE SMOOTHS THE PATH TO TCP/IP
A ppletalk has been the
mainstay of Macintosh network¬
ing for a decade, but it’s rime to
stick a fork in it: it's done. Any¬
one building a Macintosh office
network today bases it entirely on
TCP/IP for Inter net-wide accessibility,
improved performance, anti compatibility
with third-party networking products,
Alas, migrating an existing AppleTalk net-
location. Location, Location AppleTalk to IP
Migration Suite's SharcWay IP Pro component makes
nonTCP/JP AFP servers visible across the Internet
work to TCP/IP can be a painful process.
Open Door Networks* AppleTalk to IP
Migration Suite eases your pain by giving
you tools to make the AppleTalk-to-
TCP/IP transition gradually.
The Migration Suite bundles four
Open Door products—ShareWay IP Pro¬
fessional Edition 2.0, DoorStop 1.0.1,
LogDoor 2.2, and AFP Engage 2.0.1—
with a Web-based tutorial that explains
migration strategics. The package also
gives you templates that help you orga¬
nize and plan your move, along with help¬
ful tutorials on IP printing and TCP/IP
security. Following the three-step plan
outlined in the migration tutorial, you
first establish concurrent AppleTalk and
TCP/IP routing throughout your net¬
work. You then use SharcWay IP Pro to
make existing AppleTalk Filing Protocol
(AFP) servers visible on the TCP/IP net¬
work, and finally minimize or eliminate
AFP altogether by replacing existing AFP
server software with IP-capable software.
ShareWay IP Pro is the central com¬
ponent of the suite, giving AFP servers
TCP/IP access by mapping individual
servers to a single IP address. The pro¬
gram supports the Service Location Pro¬
tocol (SLP), a TCP/IP standard for pro¬
viding Chooser-like access to servers
across a wide-area network. Remote users
can get to any AFP server made acces¬
sible hy ShareWay IP Pro using a Web
browser or the supplied AFP Engage
client rather than the Chooser.
Security is a concern any time you
connect a network to the Internet. The
Migration Suite’s securin' component is
DoorStop, a TCP/IP filtering package
that controls access to servers from the
Internet by IP address and protocol.
Unlike traditional firewalls, DoorStop
doesn’t offer centralized protection—you
need to run a copy on each server. And
you must configure each DoorStop instal¬
lation separately, multiplying security-
administration chores and increasing the
possibility of leaving security holes.
LogDoor, the final component of the
AI ignition Suite, provides log analysis and
reporting for events recorded by Share-
Way IP Pro, DoorStop, and Open Door’s
AFT Logger (not included in the suite), as
well as for other Web servers' Jogs. Log-
Door can display real-time traffic graphs
or output batch reports periodically to
HTML or text files.
Individually, each tool in the suite
handles its assigned task well, and the
excellent Web-based tutorials clearly
explain how to pull off a successful migra¬
tion. However, the tools themselves are
not integrated—you have to do a lot of
reading before putting the suite to work.
Macworld's Buying Advice
If you’re still running a multizone Apple-
Talk network, you need to make the move
to TCP/IP, AppleTalk to IP Migration
Suite simplifies the process by letting you
gradually shift services from AppleTalk
to IP and gives you a great education in
the process. Migrating an AppleTalk net¬
work to IP will never be fun, but with this
suite it can be painless.— mil beckman
RATING: Iff 7a PROS: TCR/tP gateway for
multiple AppleTalk AFP servers. SLP proxy; real¬
time traffic graphing. CONS: Weak component
integration; no centralized security. COMPANY;
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Palm VII
WIRELESS, ONE-PIECE INTERNET ACCESS
A dd a wireless modem to
the wildly popular Palm Ills (see
Reviews, June 1999), and you’ve got
the Palm VII. When you lift this
2MB, 6-ounce gadget’s flexible
antenna, the device instantly turns on;
you’re ready to go online wirelessly from
wherever you happen to he. This kind of
convenience can he heaven-sent when
you’re mobile—but it comes at a price.
Sending and receiving standard Inter¬
net e-mail {minus attachments) is easy and
convenient, even when youVc trapped in a
taxi. Unfortunately, although you can rr out¬
going messages to your Mac’s e-mail
account, incoming messages are forever
confined to the Pahn VTI, which has its own
©palm.net address.
Because of bandwidth and HTML
issues, you can’t freely surf the Web with
the Palin VII; instead, you load miniature
search engines onto the device from your
Mac. Each of these Palm query applications,
or PQAs, can grab data from a particular
Web site in about 10 seconds. The 22
starter PQAs include those for Etrade (for
stock prices), USA Today, the Wall Street
Journal, Movietone, and Weather.com;
you’ll find dozens more at www.palm.net.
Such instantaneous Web data can be a life-
saver on the road: the People Search PQA
is a national phone hook, MapQuest gives
you cum -by-rum driring directions, and the
Go PQA translates five languages. And with
Palm Computings free PQA Builder pro¬
gram for the Mac, you can even write your
own PQAs using standard HTML.
Overshadowing all the good news,
however, is the service price: S10 per month
tor 50K of data sent and received (about one
e-mail and two Web searches a day), or $25
for three times as much. (Above your limit,
you pay about 10 cents per screen to I.) Wor¬
rying about your K count greatly curbs the
exhilarating sense of freedom you’d other¬
wise get. Spending safeguards are every¬
where—for example, the e-mail program
retrieves only the first 500 characters of
each message, and you download the
remainder at your option—but they also
serve as reminders that Big Byte Brother is
always watching.
Macworld's Buying Advice On one
hand, the Palm VII is a version 1.0 device.
The e-mail program needs more features,
each pair of AAA batteries lasts only about
three weeks, the BellSouth coverage could
stand widening (it now covers the 260 most
populous U.S. cities), and the whole affair
cries out for an unlimited pricing plan. On
the other hand, anyone who travels will find
the device a life-changer. (When a recent
flight was canceled, 1 used the Traveledty
PQA to find a replacement flight on a rival
airline—one that the desk agent had over¬
looked.) The bottom line: the Palm VII is
the first one-piece, wireless palmtop, and it
Works.-DAVID POGUE
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Adobe Type Manager 4.5
SMALL ENHANCEMENTS ADD UP IN UPDATED FONT MANAGER
S ometimes a product is so
seamless that you take it for granted
and don’t bother with updates. In the
case of Adobe Type Manager (ATM),
that would be a mistake. While not
exactly a quantum leap over version 4.0,
ATM 4.5 adds a host of small and medium-
size features that make it even more indis¬
pensable for the typographically inclined.
For many, the biggest selling point will
be ATM’s new compatibility' with Mac OS
8.5 and 8.6. The previous version usually
worked with Mac OS 8.5, but not always;
users reported a variety of incompatibilities,
including many that led to system freezes
with some programs. In our testing, the new
version didn’t cause such system hang-ups,
although some problems may remain for
specific programs.
But what we like most about ATM 4.5
are the improved font-management func¬
tions. For example, when ATM finds a
damaged font, it highlights that suitcase
icon to make it easier to find. And you can
now copy all the fonts in a set to a new
location—perfect for desktop publishers
who need to give their service bureaus
Zap Font Duplicates Adobe Type Manager 4.5
finds duplicate fonts and. if you like, removes them
from ATM’s font list or your hard drive.
copies of fonts for output.
Other handy features include the abil¬
ity' to search for fonts by name and have
ATM find and delete duplicate fonts. The
new version also offers better compatibil¬
ity with Adobe Acrobat 4.0, which can now
use ATM’s font list when printing. In addi¬
tion, ATM now includes the updated Adobe
Type Reunion 2.5. Less useful is ATM 4.5’s
ability to create temporary font sets; it
seems just as easy to create a set and then
deactivate or delete it if you don’t need it
any longer.
There’s still room for improvement;
for example, ATM 4.5’s font cache uses
three times as much RAM as version 4.0’s
did for the same set of fonts on our test
system (lMB versus 384K), and the 15
included fonts are ho-hum designs you’re
not likely to use. In addition, Adobe Type
Reunion won’t work with QuarkXPress
4.0X’s palettes, although it works fine with
the Font menu; the company says a fix is
in the works.
Macworld's Buying Advice Adobe
Type Manager 4.5 is a must-have upgrade
for current ATM users; publishing-oriented
users simply depend on fonts too much not
to take advantage of die program’s improved
stability' and management abilities. With the
new version, you’ll once again be able to
take ATM for granted.— gaien gruman
RATING: MM PROS: Better font manage¬
ment; improved interface; compatible with Mac
OS 8.5 and 8.6. CONS: Uses more memory;
Adobe Type Reunion has some incompatibility
problems. COMPANY: Adobe Systems (800/833*
6687. www.adobc.com). LIST PRICE: $99.95.
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On Guard 3.2
ALL-PURPOSE SECURITY APPLICATION
T hose who oversee macs in
a shared-user environment, such as a
classroom or office, often need to
control individuals' access to the data
on those computers. One way to do
that is by using Power On Software's On
Guard 3.2, a comprehensive—though not
completely foolproof—utility for control¬
ling access to information.
With On Guard installed on a Mac or
across a network of Macs, the administra¬
tor determines who may view, move, open,
and modify files and folders on hard disks,
floppies, CD-ROMs, and removable media.
In addition, you can force users to save files
only to specific folders; limit the number of
copies a user can print; prevent access to the
Chooser, System Folder, and control pan¬
els; and disable the Force Quit command
and Interrupt switch. You can also config¬
ure the program to lock volumes so they’re
inaccessible when someone boots the Mac
from another disk.
Because On Guard has so many secu¬
rity options, administrators who can't resist
tweaking every setting to the ;/th degree
could spend a fair amount of time config¬
uring the program for each user—after all,
it lets you tinker with access configurations
for every' file on a Macs hard drive. Thank¬
fully, On Guard offers some help in this
regard. For example, the program is pre-
configured with the kind of options that
are likely to be used in a typical classroom
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setting—users are allowed to save docu¬
ments only to their own folder or a floppy
disk, but they can’t move, duplicate, or
make aliases of files or open any control
panels. On Guard also lets you create
groups of users: just configure the program
once for a group and then add individual
users to that group. For example, students
who supervise a computer lab’s network
could be granted greater access than the
first-grade reading group. As welcome as
this flexibility is, it would be nice if On
Guard included templates for other typi¬
cal setups and a wizard for creating more-
complex configurations.
On Guard is intended for use in super¬
vised situations and, as such, its not com¬
pletely bulletproof—1 was able to skirt the
program’s protections without a great deal
of difficulty. You may need to chaperon stu¬
dents and workers bent on defeating On
Guard’s guardianship.
Macworld's Buying Advice .Although
not secure enough for government work,
On Guard is capable of handling the secu¬
rity' needs of a supervised school computer
lab or hackerless office. If the computers you
control are unprotected, it may be time to
put them on guard.— Christopher breen
RATING: MM PROS: Comprehensive protec¬
tion options; preconfigured for classroom use.
CONS: Configuration can be involved; not com¬
pletely secjre. COMPANY: Power On Software
(800/344-9160, www.poweronsw.com). LIST
PRICE: Single-user pack, S50; ten-user pack, S250.
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MacTuner 2.0
GATEWAY TO STREAMING BROADCASTS
D id you know that your mac
is the ultimate world radio and TV
receiver? Simply install one csf Real¬
Networks* RealPlayer programs, and
you can tune in to any of the more
than 1,500 radio and TV stations that
stream live broadcasts into cyberspace. You
can also listen to air-traffic control towers,
police scanners, and weather forecasts. But
how do you find these riches? You could use
a Web search engine or RealNetworks’
RealGuide site (www. real guide. real, com),
hut there's a much easier way Trexar Tech¬
nologies’ MacTuner 2.0.5 is a searchable
database of live streaming stations; you find
a station using MacTuner*s search features,
and RealPlayer handles the playback. It has
some rough edges, but MacTuner is a won¬
derful way to tune in the world.
MacTuner gives you two wavs to locate
stations. The Map Browser, which displays
clickable maps of the continents, is a fun way
to browse. Its maps are far trxi small, how¬
ever; you need a surgeon's touch to home in
on Rhode Island and Delaware, not to men¬
tion most European countries. And Cana¬
da’s nearly 100 stations arc lumped into one
group rather than organized by province.
When you want to search for a station
with more precision, use MacTuner's
Search Engine window to search by state
or country, format (jazz, blues, talk, and so
on), media type (audio or video), or station
call letters. But MacTuner won’t find call
Cool Tunes from Iceland MacTuner 2.0.5's Map
Browser lets you locate streaming stations by click¬
ing on a map display
letters typed in lowercase characters, and it
ignores the return key, making you grope
for the mouse to click the Search button.
And it would he nice to he able to search
by city name—something that a competing
Windows product. Nothing Else Matters*
Vruner (www.vtuner.com), permits.
With stations frequently upgrading or
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MacTuner’s station links don*t always work.
Trexar updates MacTuner’s station database
every few weeks or so, anti the program can
automatically download the latest updates,
MacTuner also has a Favorites screen where
you can store up to 15 of your favorite
streams for quick recall,
Aflac world's B u y i ng Ad vi ce A sess ion
with MacTuner 2,0.5 is further evidence of
just how small the Internet has made the
globe. I’ve watched news from Iranian tele¬
vision, beheld steamy Brazilian soap operas,
heard weather forecasts from New Zealand,
and marveled at the United States 1 cultural
influence while listening to Elvis from South
Africa and Charlie Parker from Kazakhstan.
MacTuner needs a bit of polish here and
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LANsurveyor 5.0
NETWORK MONITOR STILL LIGHTWEIGHT
W ITH ALL THINGS NET-
worked migrating to TCP/IP,
LAN administrators want IP-
capable tools. Neon Software’s
LANsurveyor 5.0 obliges with
new IP discovery capabilities and beefed-up
Mac-ccntric features, but it lacks IP-man-
agement capabilities that many administra¬
tors consider essential; expect to buy adjunct
tools, such as Neon’s CyberGauge and Dart¬
mouth College’s IntcrMapper, to flesh out
your networking tool kit.
LANsurveyor 5.0 consists of a main
network-management application that you
run on a centrally located Mac and a remote
Responder application that runs on each
Mac in your network (20 Responders are
included). The management application
scans the network, locating computers,
printers, routers, and other network devices
and plotting them on a map. You can then
customize i'he knap, assigning icons and
arranging obiecCs to stfjt your needs.
In jts DisooveW mode, LANsurveyor
can now find IPMmly devices as well as
AppleTalk, devices. Macs running the
Responder application report system infor-
Go with the Flow LANsurveyor 5.0 monitors traf¬
fic flow and alerts you to congested areas.
mation; once your network is mapped,
LANsurveyor monitors it for problems and
notifies you by alert, alarm, e-mail, or page.
Managers will welcome the program’s
new ability to send folders and messages to
remote Macs and to configure the Respon¬
der application remotely. The new version
also adds convenience features, such as the
ability to launch CyberGauge and Netopia’s
Timbuktu to further manage selected map
objects, and monitoring improvements,
including the ability to alert on a device’s
traffic volume rather than error rate.
Despite these enhancements, LANsur¬
veyor still falls short as an IP-management
tool. Its traffic monitor, for example, still
checks only for packets moved in a moni-
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gram still supports only one SNMP com¬
munity name, and it still won’t lei you build
subsidiary maps to manage large LANs. By
taking the liberty of completely reorganiz¬
ing its map whenever a new discover) 4
process is run, LANsurveyor will frustrate
users trying to maintain a custom map lay¬
out. And for all its newfound IP discovery
abilities, it doesn’t detect or monitor the IP
services served by discovered devices.
Macworld's Buying Advice LANsur-
vcyor’s new features arc welcome improve¬
ments, but the program fails to provide all the
tools you need to manage a network. Worse,
many of its shortcomings—such as quirky
data-rate measurements—get in the way of
good network-administration practice. If you
need LANsurvcyor’s Mac-oriented manage¬
ment features, you may find a place for it in
your tool kit, hut plan to use something else
for TCP/IP administration.— mel beckman
RATING: Mv, PROS: IP discovery; can control
Macs remotely. CONS: No subsidiary maps; can’t
detect or monitor IP services; arbitrary map reor¬
ganization. COMPANY: Neon Software (925/
283-9771.www.neon.com). LIST PRICE: Five
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SoftRouter Plus 6.0
ROUTING SOFTWARE ADDS WEB CACHING
W HEN HORDES OF USERS ON
a network are surfing the Inter¬
net, the result is redundant traf¬
fic and wasted bandwidth—par¬
ticularly when users are accessing
the same group of Web sites, Vieomsofts
SoftRouter Plus 6*0.1 solves this problem by
storing a copy of repeatedly accessed sites on
a local server’s hard disk for faster perfor¬
mance. At the same time, SoftRouter Plus
features world-class TCP/IP routing and
network-administration sen ices equivalent
to those in expensive hardware routers.
Besides offering all the functions of a typ¬
ical hardware-based router—including the
a hi lit)' to internetwork Ethernet, Token Ring,
dial-up, and wide-area networks—SoftRouter
Plus has a graphical interface and a setup wiz¬
ard that will have even nontechnical users
up and running quickly. And the package
includes a slew of Helpful network-adminis¬
tration aids: Routing Information Protocol
support for automatically configuring route
tables, RADIUS (Remote Authentication
Dial-In User Service), network address trans¬
lation, Dynamic Host Configuration Proto¬
col (DI ICP), a dynamic DNS server that
Show Me the Cache SoftRouter Plus 6.0.1 dis¬
plays both current traffic statistics and Web cache
performance, letting you keep an eye on your
Internet bandwidth.
synchronizes names with DHCP-assigned
addresses, host access rights, and TCP/IP
multihoming* And with the appropriate Mac
hardware, you can even sec up multiple serial
PPP dial-in ports for remote users.
But the big improvement in version
6,0.1 is a bundled caching Web server,
which makes copies of Web pages that users
access most frequently and then retrieves
them from the cache to satisfy repeat
requests. Caching is transparent—you don’t
need to reconfigure users 1 browsers to
access a proxy server—and you can archive
selected Web sites for access even when
your Internet connection is down.
In tests over an ISDN Internet con¬
nection with five remote users, SoftRouter
Plus demonstrated TI-like performance
when accessing cached sires. For even bet¬
ter performance, you can run the caching
server software on a separate machine, or
even redirect HTTP requests to another
vendor’s caching server.
Macworld's Buying Advice Soft¬
Router Plus 6.0.1 s Web cache does wonders
tor Internet performance when multiple
users chase the same online content, and
the programs many other administration
aids make it perfect for cross-platform net¬
works* If you ca n’t afford a $2,000 hardware
router but have a spare Mac, SoftRouter
Plus can be a budget saver, too; its low per¬
user pricing makes it affordable for virtually
any workgroup.— mel beckman
RATING: ♦MM PROS: Web caching: net¬
work address translation and DHCP; DNS/DHCP
integration: multiple PPP dial-in ports; RADIUS
support; virtual Web serving- CONS: None.
COMPANY: Vleomsoft (000/818-4266, www
.vicomsoft.com). LIST PRICE: Five users, $190;
ten users. S380; unlimited users, $430.
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Chasing Cheap Thrills
A BARGAIN HUNTER'S GUIDE TO MAC SHAREWARE GAMES
by Christopher Breen
m y life is nearly perfect* ITeck—-
what could be better than get-
ting paid to play computer
games? PH admit there is one
wee insect in the unguent, how¬
ever; Because I do spend an inordinate
amount of rime dinking around with
computer games, 1 suffer from a common
gamers malady—I don’t get out much*
And when I say ! don’t get out much I
specifically mean that 1 go to the movies
about as often as Steve Jobs and his vegan
buddies trip down to Billy Bob's
Barbecue Bungalow for a slab o’
ribs and a side of scrapple.
Which might explain why,
when I finally succumbed to
The Force and stood in a seem¬
ingly endless movie line, I bur¬
bled “How much!?” when die ticket
seller requested that 1 fork over eight-
poi nt-seven - five si tn ol eons.
“Eight seventy-five, 1 ’ she patiently
repeated while giving me a look T
recognized as the same one I issue
when friends of mine gripe about the
cost of computer games* Roughly
translated, diat look means: “This
is high-quality entertainment,
buster, and if you want to partake
you'll pony up and shut your yap*”
And so I did, but not without revisit¬
ing my friends’ complaints. It dawned on
me that forty to fifty bucks is a lot of
money, and although I maintain that
there are several games worth the price,
there me less expensive ways to gain a fair
dollop of Macintosh gaming goodness. If
S you’re interested in learning how, read on,
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% Working with a Net
I The best place to look for games that
s? won’t drain your bank account is the
Internet. A remarkable variety of high-
quality games is available for the price of
a download and, perhaps, a shareware
fee of $20 or less* Don’t let the fact that
these games arc shareware dissuade you
from investigating further. Although
you’re unlikely to find a shareware
shoot-’em-up to rival Unreal or a pay-
to-play flight sim as rich and complex as
Falcon 4*0, die shareware world does
offer commercial-quality arcade, board.
and adventure games for the price of a
few movie rickets. Here’s a rundown of
some of the best.
I'll start my list of great shareware
game publishers with the cream of
the crop, Ambrosia Software (www
.amhrosiasw.com). Shareware or no,
Ambrosia games arc outstanding—
Andrew Welch and the rest of the crew
are seemingly incapable of turning out
schlock* Welch’s Maelstrom, an update
to the arcade game Asteroids, is a classic,
as are the Centipede-like Apeiron, and
Swoop, a game that harkens back to
Space Invaders and Galaxian. Ambrosia’s
recent games are just as delightful. Mars
Rising is a wonderful scrolling shoot-
’em-up, Barrack is a noble update to the
old arcade game Qix, and Slithereens is
the best Pac-Man variation I’ve seen* Oh,
and then there’s Harry the Handsome
Executive, a game I’m absolutely goofy
about. Harry is mostly a puzzle game that
requires a degree of hand-eye coordina¬
tion. Your job is to destroy the alien
invaders who have overrun Harry’s
office. The hitch is that you’re con¬
fined to scooting around the
game m a six-wheeled office
chair and office supplies are
your only weapons. (Prices for
all of Ambrosia’s games are
about $15 to $25*)
F ree verse (www * free verse
.com) is another fine shareware
game publisher, especially if you’re into
card games. This company produces
such noteworthy games as Hearts
Deluxe, Spades Deluxe, Classic Gin
Rummy; and Burning Monkey Solitaire—
a version of die solitaire game Klondike
that linexpUcably takes place in a theater
full of simians. You’ll definitely want to
pay die shareware fees for Hearts Deluxe
and Spades Deluxe, Unless you pay, your
opponents are about as bright as a trough-
fiil of swamp water, which hardly leads to
challenging game play. However, by die
rime you read this you should be able to
eschew computer opponents altogether
by playing Crtbbage and Spades over die
Web via Freeversc’s server. Also worth a
entj fin fits
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THE GAME ROOM
WHat's Puzzling You? Those who fondly remember MasterMind,
the 4J match the colors and patterns"' puzzle game from the 1970s, will
love Freverse's Enigma.
down 1 oa d are F re evers c 's
board games: Enigma, a
code-breaking game; Cross-
Cards, a poker-Scrabble
combination; Reversi; The
Eclipse, an Othello clone;
and X-Words Deluxe, a
Scrabble twin. Prices for all
of Freeverse's games range
between $15 and $20. By the
way, if yon*re one of the few
souls left among us who lacks
an Internet connection, dry
your tears. Both Ambrosia and Free verse
offer unregistered versions of their games
on CD-ROM for $10,
While you're cruising the Net, don't
miss Faruasoft's Web site (www.fantasoft
.com). This is the realm of Realms, a
popular Dungeons and Dragons-style
role-playing game. You know the type:
you gather a group of oh-so-romantic
beings—sorcerers, elves, and so forth—
and traipse around the countryside per¬
forming deeds of derring-do while giving
the boot to ill-tempered, often ortho-
dontically impaired bad guys. Frankly
this style of gaming is as appealing to me
as removing plaque from my cat's teeth,
but those who like this sort of thing
swear that Realmz is The Goods, If
you're as willing to believe them as I, you
can get your copy of Realmz and the City
of Bywater scenario for $20 (additional
scenarios are $13 each). I much prefer
Your Hearts Desire Thanks to Free verse's Hearts
FantasofYs arcade and puzzle games.
Fans of die old Donkey Kong arcade
standard will enjoy the $20 Monkey
Shines, and those who fondly remember
Glenn Andreas's Blobbo—a
puzzle game that requires you
to gather die goods and avoid
falling objects—will feel right
at home with Fantasofr's $20
Bugs Bannis.
And finally, no roundup of
Net-based, inexpensive gam¬
ing goodies can fail to mention
MacMame (www.macmame
.org), a free emulation pro¬
gram that allows your Mac
to perform convincing imita¬
tions of early 1980s arcade
machines. With MacMame
you can play such classic
games as Asteroids, Defender,
Frogger, Battlezone, DigDug,
and dozens more.
Note, however, that die
developers of this emulation system ask
that before you download any games
(games come separately, you
see), you ensure that you
own copies of the origi¬
nal cartridge versions
of the games. Appar¬
ently there's a hazy
legal issue about
running these old
warhorses without
haring paid for the
license. If you own
the old games, you've paid for the license
and therefore everything should be
hunky-dory. If you don't own the games,
then technically you're stealing some¬
one's work, even though that work has
been out of print since The Dukes ofHaz-
zard played in prime time.
The Bottom Line about the
Bottom Line
In good conscience, I should issue this
warning: now that you know there are
games this good at prices this reason¬
able, it won't be long before your Mac¬
intosh's hard drive is crowded with
games and your ability to chip in with
the ersatz Eberts around the office
watercooler will be vastly diminished.
But in the end you'll thank me. Sure,
like me, you won't get out to the movies
until the next installment of Star Wars
comes out, but when it does, you'll
have saved enough dough for the
$12.75 admission and the small $25 tub
of popcorn, m
Contributing Editor CHRISTOPHER BREEN
wouldn’t hold it against you if you left the House
long enough to purchase his new. coauthored book,
My iMaciXDG Books Worldw ide, 1999).
Food of the Gods Ambrosia's Mars Rising is a terrific—and not terribly
exponsive—serolling shoot-'envup.
66 September 1999 MACWORLD
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less than a sawhuck, you can behold these
Macintosh marvels!
Why, haven't you heard?! The Mac is back,
and fun is where it's at! We've traveled the
world over from Cupertino to Kathmandu,
gathering together the most captivating Mac
gewgaws and doodads you're likely to find in
one place. That’s right, folks. This is the place
where you’ll find the coolest gadgets and add¬
ons for your Macintosh computer. And weVe
got it all—right here, I say, right here—front
die mind-bending translucent backup drives to
the mysterious talking mouse pad to our very
own World Wide Web of wonder.
Come along with me on our tour. Straight
ahead is the Mac Merry-Go-Round, just one
of the great rides at this summer’s carnival.
But this ain’t no ordinary merry-go-round.
No sir, this special attraction is pure family
fun, guaranteed to please any self-respecting
Macintosh user. Over this way you’ll see the
Macworld Fun House, home to fun and games
and frolic—after all, my friends, what else is
The
Fun is
Back!
STEP RIGHT UP TO SEE OUR COLLECTION OF THE
COOLEST AND QUIRKIEST MAC STUFF AROUND
summer for? And just beyond, the most fear¬
some and entertaining portion of our pro¬
gram—die Freak Show.
Fear not, my friends! For tills Freak Show lias
no bearded lady or human pincushion. But you’re by Christopher Breen
sure to he amazed by the quirky computer para¬
phernalia within the Freak Show’s walls.
Now that you’ve got an idea where every¬
thing is, lets take a closer look. I guarantee it’ll
be fun! Would 1 lie to you, my friends?
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P AND DOWN ON THE
MAC MERRY-GO-ROUND
L ook what we have here—our main attraction: the Mac
Merry-Go-Round, Ah, it looks like we’re just in time,
the ride's about to start. Presented for your amusement
is a cornucopia of useful and fun Macintosh miscellany, sure to
please even the most cynical Macintosh maven. Don't push!
There’s a scat for everyone.
Skinny Speakers That Sing
The world of multimedia speakers has suddenly gone flat, as
evidenced by the latest release from Sonigistix, the Monsoon
MM-700 multimedia speaker system- Like its more expensive
sibling, the $229 Monsoon MM- 1000 system (see Reviews^ April
1999), the MM -700 system includes two skinny satellite speak¬
ers and a 5.25-inch subwoofer shaped like an ice cream cone.
You control the volume of the speakers—even quickly muting
them—with a small hockey puck-shaped control box.
Although the MM-700 system is slightly less powerful than
the ALYL1000, the MM-700 speakers deliver the same trans¬
parent, balanced sound as the more expensive Mon¬
soon speakers. Gamers shouldn't expect brain- 1
crushing volume from these speakers. At - f t \lL
a moderate level they sound glori¬
ous, but when cranked they start
to sound distorted before even
rattling your windows or loosen¬
ing your plaster.
SONtGISTlX; 501/372-0366, WWW
■SONtGlSTIX.COM. UST PRICE: S179.
Where's the Hub, Bub?
Computers are now so common that many people have a
few scattered throughout the house. So link all these
machines together and play network games—oh T and maybe
share files while you're at it.
Presenting Fatal Ion's I lomeLine Starter Kit, which lets
you network two or more Macs, two PCs, ora Mac and a PC
by simply adding a HomeLine PCI card to each computer,
installing the proper drivers and software, and plugging each
HomeLine card into the nearest phone jack. Yes, it's hard to
believe, but HomeLine actually sends data through your
home phone's internal wiring, with no need for Ethernet
cables and hubs, and yes, you can continue to use that line
for phone, data, and fax calls,
FARAUON; 51G/346-8001. WWW.FARALLON.COM. COMPANY'S
ESTIMATED PRICE: $139.
Roll Your Own
Any child who wants to take control of his or her Mac and
create games, interactive stories, and simulations should take
a gander at Sugccast Creator. Intended largely for use in
schools, Stagecast Creator is a simple programming environ¬
ment that allows
kids to create their i*
own characters
and assign actions
to them. For example,
your child could
design a simple
hoard game, a
pachinko simula¬
tion, an electronic hook with illustrations—even a game of
three-card monte.
Parents need not worry that Stage cast is a complete time
waster As the program's Teacher's Guide plainly reveals, hidden
beneath the fun are some of the basic principles of program¬
ming. That's right, your child is hound to learn a thing or two
along the way. The on-screen tutorial gives a nice overview of
Stagecasts programming environment and is anything hut dry.
The CD-ROM includes several games and simulations—some
captivating enough for grown-ups!
STAGECAST SOFTWARE; 650/354-07 35 p WWW.STAGECAST.COM.
^ UST PRICE: S6G.
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Get the Picture?
If you have an iMac or new Power Macintosh C3 and
are interested in putting video on your computer, you 1 re
in luck. Thanks to XLK8 and your computer’s US 13 port, you
can now capture and edit video lor just under $100. The
means to this miracle is the Interview, a small doohickey that
sports a USB connector on one
end and an S-Video and com¬
posite-video connector on the
other. The small, black box in
between does most of the work.
To capture audio, you’ll need to
connect the audio output of
your source to the audio-input
port on your Mac.
Using the Interview you can
capture hill-frame video at 320
by 240 pixels and still frames at
640 by 480 pixels and save the
results as a QuickTime movie.
Unlike other inexpensive video-capture devices, the Interview
comes with a decent software bundle—Strata YldcuShop 4.5“
and produces smooth results.
XLR8 BY INTEREX; 316/636-5544. WWW.XLR8.COM. LIST PRICE: $99,
The Incredible Roaming iMac
PowerBook owner no longer need be the only mobile Mac
users. W ith the GrabPac-—and a muscular physique—you can
now take your iMac and its accompanying peripherals on the
70 September 1999 MACWORLD
road. This black, green, or gray item is sure to remind you of
the backpacks parents use to lug their small children around.
Slip the GrabPac cover over the
top of the iMac; slide the key¬
board into its harness; tuck the
mouse, cables, and any extra
items you care to take with you
into one of the two side pockets;
wrap the GrabPac’s padded han¬
dle around the iMac’s handle;
and you’re ready to travel.
Although you may work up
a sweat fitting your iMac into the
carrying case, you won’t need to
completely unpack it once you
reach your destination. Just un¬
clip the front screen cover, fold out the two mouse pads that
cover the keyboard, unleash the keyboard from its harness, plug
in your cables, and fire up the iMac.
GRABPAC; 602/968-4752, WWW.GRABPAC.COM. UST PRICE: S60.
Blissed Out
If you attended any rock concerts in the sixties and early sev¬
enties that featured swirling light shows, you probably don’t
remember doing so. Bliss Paint 2.0, from Imaja, may help jog
what’s left of your memory. Billed as an interactive color syn¬
thesizer, Bliss Paint allows you to create whirling, colorful
animations that can evolve and morph over time. In addition
to providing a bit of sixties nostalgia, these animations can
resemble kaleidoscopes, animated Escher compositions, and
even the strobing M \Vhoa, dude!” scene from 2001: A Space
Odyssey —you know the one.
You create these animations with Scribblers—shape gener¬
ators and processing effects—and use Distributors to determine
where the Scribblers paint. As with a musical synthesizer, you
can “play” your animations and arrange them in sequences.
These animations can be fired from your Mac keyboard, via
MIDI, or through sound input.
IMAJA; 800/294-6252, WWW.IMAJA.COM. LIST PRICE: S150.
How Do You Do That?
Can you whistle? Do you know how to tune a guitar? Having
trouble shucking an oyster? If these or other common skills
escape you, you have a friendly know-it-all on the Internet at
Leam2.com. This fairly comprehensive site provides instruc¬
tions in tasks both vital and inconsequential. In addition to
providing step-by-step instruction for whistling—both the
puckered-lip and two-finger methods—guitar tuning, and oys¬
ter shucking, Leam2 tells you how to use chopsticks, blow
bubble-gum bubbles, juggle, fix a running toilet, perform a
breast self-exam, and flush a car’s radiator.
The site is nicely designed and features a fast and thorough
search engine—you can also browse by categories such as Arts
& Crafts, Food & Drink, and Technology'. Steps are clearly
delineated, and illustrations are often provided. Leam2 includes
a list of top ten “2torials” as well as a link that allows you to
mail the lessons to friends.
LEARN2.COM; WWW.LEARN2.COM.
Share Files Cheap
When Apple yanked the SCSI port from the iMac and the blue-
and-white G3s, it also removed one of the best ways to back up
your Macintosh files. But have no fear—Aiwa has delivered a
USB tape drive to safely salt vour files
away. The TD-UM8000 is* a USB-
based Travan tape drive capable of stor¬
ing up to 8GB of compressed data
(4GB uncompressed) on a single 8GB
Travan cartridge. The preproduction
unit we looked at backed up a 266MHz
iMac at around 33.5MB per minute—
not terribly speedy but perfectly ser¬
viceable for an overnight backup.
The drive comes with Dantz’s
Retrospect and a USB cable. Cartridges
cost just over $30 each. The TD-
UM8000 sports an attractive Bondi-
blue bezel and a very attractive price—just $250. Such a deal!
AIWA; 800/920-2673, WWW.AIWA.COM/CSD/. LIST PRICE: S250.
Picture This
Picture Playground, a commercial Web site put together by
Eastman Kodak, is a bit like an online version of Adobe’s
PhotoDeluxe—a place where you can add common filters to
digital photographs that you’ve uploaded or found on the
Web. For example, you can turn pictures into cartoons;
create sepia-tone, “antiqued” versions of your photos; satu¬
rate colors; reduce color pictures to black and white; or add
an oil-paint filter to your image.
Another area of the site allows you to create postcards that
you can then e-mail to friends. As with many greeting-card
sites, these postcards speak to common themes and Hallmark
holidays such as birthdays and Mother’s Day. Unlike with other
greeting-card sites, however, you can use images that you’ve
uploaded, in addition to stock photography. In order to take
advantage of many of Picture Playground’s services, you must
become a member. Membership, however, is free.
PICTURE PLAYGROUND; http://ALTS1.KODAK.COM/US/EN/
CORP/FURTHER/.
Rules of the Game
Of course your Mac should be your primary source of enter¬
tainment, but just suppose that one stormy evening the power
goes out and all you’re left with is a candle, two matches,
three friends, and a deck of cards. What will you play with
now? Well, if you’d taken the time to visit John McLeod’s
Card Games site and memorized each page there, you’d know
the rules to just about every card game on earth. The list of
games is exhaustive—why, the number of poker variations
alone is remarkable.
Although solitaire games are well represented at Card
Games, they aren’t the only games fully explained. The site
also carries sections for multiplayer games, commercial games
(such as Mille Bornes) that require a special deck of cards, and
invented games (such as card games site visitors have invent¬
ed). John also provides links to places where you can play
cards against opponents on the Internet.
CARD GAMES;
.PAGAT.COM.
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hat's it! The Merry-Go-Round ride is
over. But fret not—it's time to move to
the Fun House, home to wild and
crazy Mac items. Interested in musical
tools? Looking for something to spruce
up that iMac? Step inside while I rustle
us up a couple of corn dogs.
Overstaffed iMac
Gone are die days of Raggedy Ann
dolls—the cyberplaymates of the
future are one-of-a-kind custom-made
iAlac pillows. And unlike their translucent
plastic counterparts, these 6-hy-9-hy-7-
inch cotton clones cost only SI 2 and arc
made to order.
These fuzzy computer pals arc available in
all five flavors—plus Bondi blue—and can be
personalized with your name for an additional
S3. Sorry, mouse and keyboard not included.
BUNSTER CREATIONS; WWW.BUNSTERCREATIONS
.COM. DIRECT PRICE; $12 PLUS SHIPPING AND HANDLING.
iMac Appetizers
If you were to go by commercials alone, you might chink that
once you own an iMac you have everything you need. Non¬
sense. The fun really begins with the accessories.
Enter Belkin Components' iMac Starter Kit. This kit con¬
tains a quartet of useful iMac-hued accessories: the black and
■"ice,” ultraconi ly Ergo Bail mouse pad: a likewise gel-filled,
black and ice ErgoFad keyboard rest; a 10-CD-capacity,
Bondi-blue jewel case; and a blue and ice SurgeMaster surge
protector complete with protection for telephone lines.
Granted, the surge protector and CD rack, while attractive,
are something you could get elsewhere.
BELKIN COMPONENTS, fiGO/223-5546, WWW.BELKIN.COM. LIST
PRICE: $60.
Oh, the Joy
Mac gamers, take note: Kernel Productions* JoyPort, a
diminutive black box not much larger than an audiocassette, is
packed with potential. This gizmo allows your ADJTequipped
Macintosh to use many .Sega Genesis, Nintendo 64, Sony
PlayStation, and PC game controllers. You just turn off the
Mac; connect the Joy Port to a free ADB port (sorry, iMac
owners); restart the Mac; install the JoyPort software; restart
again; slip a compatible joystick, game pad, or other controller
into one of the Joy Port’s ports; configure the controller for the
game in the Joy Port control panel; and have big fun!
Although the Joy Port is nearly infinitely configurable, cer¬
tain steering-wheel controllers don't function properly with
old Mac car-racing games. The device works admirably with
most arcade games and game pads, however, and is a natural
for those with Gonnectix’s Virtual Game Station
and a PlayStation controller. Kernel has prom-
\ bed a USB version soon.
KERNEL PRODUCTIONS; 302/456-3026, WWW
.KERNELCOM. LIST PRICE: $50.
Let’s Get Tanked
There’s definitely something fishy about
Aqua zone Deluxe, the virtual aquarium
fri mi M i ndseape Entertainment. Un 1 ike
the scaly screen savers of old that
boasted indestructible schools of fish,
A qua zone's denizens arc quite mortal.
As with a real aquarium, if you don’t
feed your fish, keep the tank clean and
warm, maintain a proper chemical
balance, and deal with your little
gilled buddies 1 ichthyological
illnesses, the residents of your
tank die. Keeping the fish
healthy is vital, because four of
the six species come in limited numbers. If you fail to breed
more of these fish and the original five of each species die
out, you must buy more.
In addition to the fish, Aqua zone Deluxe ships with five
aquatic plant varieties, many decorative accessories, and 12 pre¬
conditioned tanks. You can also create your own tanks.
MINDSCAPE;415/395-2000 r WWW AOUAZONE.COM. LIST PRICE: $30.
Play That Funky Music
Being a mobile DJ is tougher than you think. Sure, just about
anyone can develop snappy stage patter or find an appropriately
loud, seqtuned jacket, but the real difficulty is lugging around
all the equipment and CDs necessary to get the job done.
Fidelity Media just made that job a little easier with its
MegaSeg. This music system allows you to download hundreds
of CD tracks to your Mac, create and save playlists, edit custom
segue and intro times for each track, and seamlessly crossfade
between tracks. And just imagine the musical setup you’ll
create with your MegaSeg software
and your handy iMac GrabPac.
Fidelity Media claims that you
can store more than 500 songs on
a 6GB hard drive. This miracle is
possible thanks to MegaSegV use
of IMA 4:1 compression—a stan¬
dard chat, while reducing the size
of each file, strips the tracks of
some dynamics and adds noise.
Audio purists, take note.
FIDELITY MEDIA; 877/634-2734.
WWW.AAEGASEC.COM, LIST
PRICE: $249.
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Getting a Little Sketchy
There's a darned good reason why art historians have never
run across a mouse among the tools in Winslow Homer’s
paint box: it’s a lousy substitute for a brush or a pencil. If
you’d like your children to have a more accurate and
ergonomic artistic input device, consider the Pablo, from
KBGear Interactive. This 8-by-6-inch graphics tablet ships
with a wired pen large enough to be gripped by small hands,
2 clear plastic overlay that
enhances tracing, and a CD-
ROiYI complete with MetaCre-
ations’ Art Dabbler and Power
Goo SE. The pen sports a sin¬
gle yellow button that you can
set to perform a single-click,
double-click, click-lock, con¬
trol-click, or any keystroke.
Currently the Pablo ships
only in an ADB version, but a
USB version is due in August. In
the meantime, the maker of the
Pablo suggests using Griffin
Technology’s (615/255-0990, www.giffintechnology.com) S49
iATate USB-to-ADB adapter for ADB-less iMacs.
KBGEAR INTERACTIVE: 800/926-3066, WWW.KIDBOARD.COM. LIST
PRICE: $99.
The Magic Kingdom
Let’s face it, kids love just about anything that bears the Dis¬
ney logo—movies, theme parks, decorative lunch boxes. If you
want to make your little ones happy, point your browser to the
Disney Channel, the online, interactive arm of the Land That
Walt Built. This site is packed with Shockwave games that fea¬
ture the traditional Disney crew as well as some of the more
recent additions, including Aladdin's Genic.
Please note that although this site is full of fun, it’s also
crassly commercial—it’s as jam-packed with Disney advertising
as it is with entertainment.
DISNEY CHANNEL; http://DISNEY.GO.COM/DISNEYCHANNEL
A Better Mouse Trap
While Apple’s current designs are certainly bold, some may
wonder if our friends in Cupertino have sacrificed function
for the sake of form. Take the
Apple mouse, for example.
Cute as a button it may be, but
its shape is problematic for
some users—if you don’t have
the hands of a child, the mouse
doesn’t leave a lot of room to
rest your hand, and its round¬
ness makes it difficult to deter¬
mine which way is up.
You could buy a new mouse,
of course, or you could simply
add a new cover to the old
one—the UniTrap from Con¬
tour Design, for example. This device fits over the round mouse
and includes buttons in all five iMac flavors. To install, just
remove vour mouse’s colored side pieces, slip the mouse into
the bottom shell of the UniTrap. and clip on the cover. The
resulting mouse is a hit bulky but quite comfortable.
CONTOUR DESIGN; 800/462-6678, WWW.CONTOURDESIGN.COM.
COMPANY’S ESTIMATED PRICE: $15.
Sassy Synth
Ask any Mac musician about the quality of QuickTime Musi¬
cal Instruments (QMI) and you’ll receive a response so color¬
ful in its negativity that we couldn’t possibly print it. We can
suggest an alternative—Alesis’s QS6.1
synthesizer. This 64-voice, 61-key key¬
board includes 16MB of memory
(expandable to 32AIB via PC Cards),
four control sliders, a responsive key¬
board, a serial port in the back for
direct connections to serial port-bear¬
ing Macs, and a CD-ROM that con¬
tains Emagic’s MicroLogic AV
sequencer and a few other useful digi¬
tal-audio and MIDI applications. The
QS6.1 also contains a General MIDI
bank of sounds that’s far superior to
anything found in QuickTime.
If you’re interested in such a dedicated synthesizer hut
have a newer Mac that lacks serial ports, investigate those USB-
to-serial converters that support MIDI —not all do. Check with
Macintosh MIDI newsgroups to learn about MIDI configura¬
tions that work best for these modern Macs.
ALESIS; 800/525-3747, WWW.ALESIS.COM. LIST PRICE: $1,099.
Your Personal Top Ten
If you’d rather not wait for your coworker, Bob the Joke Guy,
to lob another poorly transcribed Letterman Top Ten list into
your e-mail in-box, go to the source—CBS’s Late Show Top
Ten site. Here you’ll find Dave’s latest Top Ten and more.
Perhaps you think you’re good enough to compete with Dave’s
well-paid but harried writing staff. Maybe so. You can test your
comedy mettle by entering the Top Ten Contest. Just offer your
suggestion on topics such as Bob Barker’s lop Ten Pet Peeves or
Top Ten Least Popular Stores at the Mall; fill in your name, home-
town, and e-mail address; and you could win a Late Night T-shirt.
CBS LATE SHOW TOP TEN; http://MARKETING.CBS.COM/LATESHOW
/TOPTEN.
Your Ticket to the Stars
You’ve slogged home after a long day at work, and following a
quick, microwaved homage to mac and cheese, you’re ready
for a little video-based mind numbing. You flip to the news¬
paper’s television listings and are confronted with numerous
filmic possibilities on TCM, AMC, TNT, and I BS. Which to
watch? Sure, you could simply channel surf, but why bother
when you can Web surf to the Internet Movie Database? This
site, hosted by Amazon.com, provides information on more
than 180,000 movie titles. You can search by movie title as well
as by actor—a great resource for those times w hen you can’t
quite recall all 238 films of Eugene Pallette’s career.
Breaks and geeks
M y friends, finish your corn dogs and prepare to he
amazed by the products that reside inside our taber¬
nacle of terror, the Freak Show. You may find the
denizens of the Freak Show a little strange* but I guarantee
they’ll add a little spunk to your
Mac if you just give ’em a chance.
Ready for the quirky stuff,
the weird outer-space,
glow-in-the-dark,
fortune-telling,
freaky Mac stuff?
Step inside!
We Are Not Alone
What’s the likelihood that
somewhere, among the bil¬
lions and billions of scars in
our universe, there exists
another sentient civiliza¬
tion eager to converse
with us Earth bound
sehmoes? That’s
a question some
folks at SETl (The
Search for Extraterrestri¬
al Intelligence) would like to
find an answer to. And yon can
help them obtain that answer. Here’s how.
Download a copy of SETl ©home. This application/screen
saver downloads a chunk of data picked up by an audio obser¬
vatory, analyzes that data to determine if otherworiders are
attempting to send a response to the radio signals we broadcast
into space, and sends the results of that analysis back to the
SETI@homc people. What better way to employ your Mac
during its otherwise unoccupied moments?
SETI@HOME PROJECT; HTTP://SETfATHOME.SSL.BERKELEY.EDU,
Palm Dessert
3Coins ubiquitous Palm is a handy enough device that users
have been willing to put up with Graffiti, the Palm’s write-it-
our-way-or-else handwriting interface. But let’s face it, using
Graffiti is hardly the most convenient way to enter information
into your pocket pal. If only the Palm—like the Newton
Message Pad 2000 before it—came with a keyboard.
Now it does, thanks to Land Ware’s GoType, a diminutive
plug-and-play QWERTY keyboard designed for all the Palms
except the Palm V and Palm VII (LandWare will release a
Palm V-compa tilde keyboard shonly). Just drop your Palm into
the GoTypc’s integrated cradle and start typing. While not tiny
enough to fit in vour back pocket, the GoType measures only
10 by 4 inches anti is just *A inch deep. Without an attached
Palm, the GoType weighs just 11 ounces.
LANDWARE; 201/2G1-7944, WWW.LANDWARE.COM- LIST PRICE: $8G.
Unwired for Sound
You’re deeply entrenched in an online Quake III fragfest, it’s
3:10 A,AL S and you—a considerate individual—are wearing
headphones. In a dash to the bathroom between bouts, you
forget to remove the headphones, and when your forward
progress exceeds the length of the headphones’ cable, you dis¬
locate your neck and nearly rip off your ears. Do yourself and
your ears a favor and give a listen to Land Group’s Un-Wired
Model fiOQOIR wireless headphones.
As the name implies, these ultracomfortable headphones
carry no attached cable. Instead, they receive audio signals
from an infrared transmitter that you place in a convenient
location within 25 feet of your intended area of use. Connect
the included audio cable from your Mac’s audio-output port
to the transmitter’s input ports, pop a couple of AAA batteries
into the headphones, switch on the transmitter and head¬
phones, and you’re ready to rock remotely at a frequency
response of 35Hz to 18,000Hz.
LARAL GROUP; 516/293-6900. WWW.UN-WIRED.COM. LIST PRICE: $50.
Doctor Wheelgood
Presenting the humble compact disc—useful for holding
catchy tunes, the standard when it comes to installing software,
and nearly indestructible. But occasionally one of these shiny,
silver wonders becomes so scratched or abraded that areas of
the disc cannot he read. Digital Innovations comes to the res¬
cue with its Game Doctor, a device that looks like a cross
between a can opener and a
grocery-store label gun and that
removes shallow scratches and
abrasions from CDs.
To use the Game Doctor,
simply fold down the device’s
lower jaw, strap a CD onto die
wheel, spray the disc with the
included Resurfacing Solution
(filtered water), Hip the jaw into
place, and start cranking the
Doctor’s handle. As you crank,
the wheel slowly rotates, polish¬
ing the disc. After polishing you
simply dry and buff the disc with the included towel and felt
square; with any luck, the disc will then function perfectly.
DIGITAL INNOVATIONS: 888/762-7858, WWW.DIGITALIN NOVATIONS
.COM. LIST PRICE: S35,
Are You an Ogre?
Described as a perfect place for some serious entertainment,
Queendom.com offers the kind of tests and surveys often found
in magazines that cater primarily to women. Care to test your
IQ, check your personality determine whether you suffer from
depression, discover your degree of assertiveness, or compare
your sex life to those of your fellow' beings? Queendom.com
74 September 19 59 MACWORLD
offers tests that cover all these areas, as well as advice columns
and articles pertaining to women’s health issues.
In general, the results of the tests are clear and non judg¬
mental; regardless of how you answer, you won’t have to read
that you’re an overbearing ogre w ho would be doing the world
an enormous favor by taking up permanent residence in a
remote mountain cave.
QUEENDGMXOM; WWW.QUEENDOMXOM/TE5TS.HTML.
Squeaky Mouse Pad
If you’re tired of pushing your mouse around on the back
cover of a vintage, 1984 issue of bidder, ComputerGear
has more than plenty of decorative mouse pads for you. Pre¬
senting the Winning Shot and Wolf audio mouse pads—
that’s right, not only do these rubber-and-nylon pads sport
the pictures of a putting green and a wolf haying at the
moon* respectively, hut when you press a particular spot on
the pads, they erupt with sound (a cheering crowd
for the Winning Shot pad and, as you might
expect, a howling wolf for the other).
The novelty of these pads wears off after the
first playing or two, so if you’d like something
kicky but quieter, consider ComputerGear’s
South Park mouse pads, which feature a big¬
boned Eric Theodore Cartman and the ever
enthusiastic Kyle BrosIofskL
COMPUTERGEAR; 800/3 7 3 * 63 5 3 , WWW
XOMPUTERGEARXQM. LIST PRICE: AUDIO MOUSE
PADS, $17; SOUTH PARK MOUSE PADS, $15.
Freaky News
There’s a lot of news in die world—far more than
your local radio station, television channel, or
newspaper could ever hope to cover. Oh sure,
you'll learn about the latest hurricane or scandal,
but where are you going to read such gripping
items as “Cops Seek Thief Who Digs Elders’
Undies” or “Prep Student Attacked for Listening
to Queen”? Log on to Jim Romcncsko’s Obscure
Store and Reading Room.
Mr. Romenesko handpicks the more offbeat stories of our
world and provides links to dieir source on this Web site. That
source may be as lightweight as the National Enquirer or Holly¬
wood Reporter or as earnest as the AP News wire or CNN, You’ll
also find links to transcripts of newsmaker broadcasts such as
Larry King Live and Meet the Press.
OBSCURE STORE AMD READING ROOM; WWW.O0SCURESTORE.COM.
Shocking Movies
Are you a frustrated filmmaker whose cinematic ideas can be
realized in a single exchange of dialogue between two char¬
acters? Then the Digital Film Festival is for you. At
dfilm.com you can create, view, and distribute your very own
ShockWave movies. Here’s how.
Simply click on the MovieMaker Game link, determine
if you want your film to star one or two characters, select
the characters you wish to use, choose a sky and background
pattern, write the first {and last, as it happens) line of dia¬
logue for each character, select a soundtrack, enter the title
of your movie and your name, and click on the Preview
Movie link to see your film in the flesh. From the Preview
screen, you can e-mail a link to your creation to anyone.
And while you’re at the site, you can watch clips of more-
extensive films created specifically for the Internet.
DIGITAL FILM FESTIVAL; WWW.DFILM.COM.
You Light Up My Life
When the iMac was first put on display,
Apple used a cunning optical illusion to
enhance the LYIac’s already cool appear¬
ance—the LYlac mouse was placed on a
lighted table, thus helping illuminate
the mouse’s innards. This illusion was
so convincing that many people be-
lieved the round mouse actually con¬
tained a light source. It doesn’t, but w r ith
a little help from iGlow, it can.
The concept is very
simple. Send iGlow* your
round mouse, and for SI7.95
plus S3,00 shipping, the company will implant a blue
or red LED (light-emitting diode) into your translu¬
cent pointing device. If you have $24.95 (and $4.00
shipping) to spare, you can also have the company
place up to diree blue or red LEDs in a translucent
trackball of vour choosing. In addition, iGloxv will
sell you an already modified mouse—a MacAIfy
iMouse or Kensington USB Mouse in a Box—for
S49.95 plus $3.00 shipping.
iGLOW; 408/262-8135, WWWIGLOW.ORG, UST PRICE: $21,
Alarming Development
PowerBooks arc mighty convenient, but die very fea¬
tures chut make them so convenient—their small size
and easy portability-—-also leave them susceptible to
theft. Other than chaining your PowerBook bag to
your body, there is a measure you can take to make
your PowerBook more secure: the Targus Defcon 1, a
small alarm that attaches to_
your PowerBook or PowerBook bag.
The Defcon l, an alarm about the
size of a cellular telephone, offers two
types of protection. You can attach it
to the security slot on your Power-
Book, run Defcon l’s cable through
the hole in the adapter, 3 nd lock the
cable. If someone attempts to cut the
cable, a screeching alarm sounds. The
device also carries a motion alarm. If
the Defcon 1 detects more than a few
seconds of motion, it yells its head
off. Note: The device is not sturdy
enough to protect against prying thieves with sledgehammers.
TARGUS; 714/523-5429. WWW.TARGUS.COM. COMPANY'S ESTI*
MATED PRICE: $50. m
Before you leave the Freak Show, be sure to wave to Macworld's contributing
game and iMac freak, CHRISTOPHER BREEN
www.macworld.com September 1999 75
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' emetimes a picture is worth a.thousand words—all of dje four-Iet-
ter variety. After all, snapping the perfect shot is only the first step.
If you want to post-it omthe Web or print it on a birthday card or
in a magazine, you ye got to get it into your Mac, You could shoot your
and every one. Or you could try a less stress-fiUed route: scanning your
film or skipping film altogether by using a digital camera. Here's to
reclaiming the simple joys of pictures—no matter
how you choose to take them.
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the help of digital inter-*
Digital Cameras Develop
These 14 Megapixel
Cameras Will
Help You
Get the Picture
E verywhere you look, ads for-software and computers
celebrate the benefits of doubling: “Double the pro¬
cessing power!” “Twice the capacity!” “100 percent
faster download times!” Yet somehow, once you Ye sitting at
your desk, these leaps don't translate into equivalent increases
in perspnal efficiency: you don't work twice as fa£t, nor is your
work twi ce as good as it was be fore.
This isn't the case with digital cameras. When a digital
camera captures twice as many pixels, you see the results. You
really do get mice as much information, nvd time's as.much
detail, and double the clarity. Tbrere-s nothing theoretical
about it — the results are right there in die photograph.
When we looked at digital cameras bst year (see “Focus
On,” October 1998), the first of the $i,OG(Kand-under cam-
. eras had just broken the so-called megapixel barrier, captur¬
ing 1 million pixels or more per shot. This year, the number
of pixels keeps climbing. One camera in our roundup, Nikon's
$999 Coolpix 9J0, packs more than 2 million
pixefs into each picture; Although earlier cameras
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polation (adding pixels they hadn't really captured). The
Coqlpfoe 950 is the real thing, the first two-megapixel camera
that costs less tha'ira new iMae.
/ This is a bigger deal than you* might think. Nikon's 2.11
‘ million-pixel CCD (charge-coupled device) contains as many
light-sensitive electrodes as do the image sensors in some pro¬
fessional-level cameras. For example, Kodak's popular DCS 520
captures several thousand pixels fewer than the $999 Nikon,
yet it costs $14,995. Admittedly, die DCS 520 and its ilk offer
features die simple Coolpix 950 lacks, but it's safe to say the*
Coolpix 950 breaks new ground. It's as. if, despite their differ¬
ences, die Coolpix 950 and professional-levelpCS 520 used the
same kiiukof film. Instead cf supporting wildly divergent tech¬
nologies, diese cameras boast similar basic components pack¬
aged tiifferendy. This is good news for buyers on a budget.,
Weighing and Measuring *
The Coolpix 950 ish't the only new'camera on the^ market. In
all, \ye looked at 14 megapixel cameras from 11 companies and
priced between $400 and $1,200 (see the table, “14 Mega¬
pixel Cameras Compared,” ftir details),The cameras ranged
'in weight from the stripped-down, 12-ounce Olympus
D-340R ($399)' to the relatively gargantuan, 29-ounce Canon
PowerShot Pro70 ($1,199). Alas, none of these babies are
small enough to fit in a shirt pocket; however, you can dick all
except the PowerShot Pro70 and the slightly smaller $999
Olympus D-620L-into a fanny pack or purse.
In addition to evaluating size and expense, we graded the
cameras based on image quality resolution, innovation, and
ease of use. After all, if.you’re'‘buying a camera for professional ,
work, ids important that it capture crisply focused details and
accurate color transitions. You also need a responsive camera
that powers up and shoots pictures with few delays (see the
benchmark, “Snap to IP').’At home, the last thing you w ant to.
*ib is wage war with yet another machinfe, so convenience is
king. Straightforward controls, flexible image transfer, and
spifly image quality even.in low-light conditions are paramount.
This bushel is not without its bad apples, buj: although you
may want to avoid a few, the group as a whole appears to he
heading in the'right direction. T&o cameras in particular stood
out from the crowd. The $699 D-400 Zoom, from Olympus,
is a first-rate camera for home use. Meanwhile, Nikon's
Coolpix 950 is perfect for professionals.
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Resolution and Interpolation
Five years have passed since Apple released the $749 Quick'
Take 100, the first camera under $1,000 to capture*640 by. 480
pixels in 24-bit colon Thankfully, the state of the art has
improved dramatically since then* The least-equipped cairn
era in our roundup, the Olympus D-34GR, costs about half
as much and captures four times as many pixels as die old
QukkTakc. The higher concentration of pixels means you
can'print an image at-larger Sizes without revealing noise,
compression artifacts, and other digital defects.
But today's megapixelcameras don't just capture more
pixels—they capture better' ones. Even the $699 Kodak.
DC240—which produced the worst pictures of any camera
we looked at—manages to capture sharply defined edges, *
though/die colors of those edges are often inaccurate (see
the sidebar; “The Proof Tsjn the Pictures”), ^ •.
Sizing Your Snapshots ’ Qf the 14 cameras we looked
at, 7 are solid'megapixel devices* Their photosensitive
CCDs; die digital equivalent of film, capture 1,280 by
960 pixels for a, rough total of 1.2 million pixels per
image. (The CCD actually capoi^esTworepixels than tins,
but some are masked but and don't make it to die pic¬
ture.) ityiiat does this mean in practical terms? At 256
pixels per inch, roughly equivalent to the commercial *
standard for offset printing, you'll be able to print the ■*
pictures you take with .these cameras as big as 5*0 by
3.75 inches* Go, any larger than that and blocky
pixels become visible.
Three cameras—the $599 Fuji MX-600
Zoom, the Olympus D-62UL, and the $599
Toshiba PDR-M3-—add a H few pixels vertically,
nudging the print size to 5*0 by'4.0 inches.
Minolta's $899 Dimage EX Zoom 1500 snaps
5*25 -by- 3.9 -inch pho tos *
H The three remaining*cameras provide
more-substantive enlargements. .Canon's
FowerShot Pro7Q and Kodak’s $999 DC265
capture 1.536 by 1,024 pixels; equivalent to
a 6“by-4-inch print. The Nikon Cooipix
950's 1,600 by 1,200 pixels translate to a
6*25-by'-4*7-inch -photograph—that’s 50
percent more picture than you can get from
the 1,2 80-by-96Q-pixel crowd. ,
Inventing Pixels Sometimes it’s not so
easy to figure out bow many pixels a cam¬
era can capture. Agfa's $799 ePhoto CL 50,
Epson’s $799 Pho to PC 750Z, and Sanyo’s
$899 VPC-Z400 all ejaim to support res¬
olutions as high as 1,600 by 1,200 pixels,' .
but these cameras are in fact limited to
1,280 by 960 pixels* They all use inter¬
polation to achieve their inflated reso¬
lutions. None of' die interpolated
images held up to the authentic pixels
the Nikon Cooipix 950's higher-reso¬
lution CCD captured.
Innovations and Blunders
Three years ago, Casio proved its dig¬
ital camera could go where no film
ca mera had gone before "by
including a color LCD
screen. The LCD showed you
the exact image projected onto ,
the CCD inside, giving you a
more accurate preview than an
optical viewfinder would.
This,trend continues'with
advances in.LCD, flash, and
foctis. For example, in addition
to providing ultrasmooth LCD
image previews, die Agfa* Epson,
and Sanyo models allow you to
pop the top of the LCD so that
sunlight can shine-in and back¬
light the screen. Not only does
this conserve power—the LCD is
the camera’s biggest power draw-^
bur it also .brightens the LCD
screen when you’re shooting out¬
doors m direct light, conditions
✓ under which a synthetically lit LCD
is too dim to be visible.
Sordid LCD Tales Given the impor¬
tance of a good LCD preview, you’ll
want to think twice before buying the
Casio, Kodak, or Minolta models. The
screens on these cameras are both grainy
, and unusually sensitive to movement.
Each time -you shift the camera to a new
position, the subject blurs or separates into
' its RGB components, making it difficult to
frame moving and still targets alike. '
The $699 Casio QV-70QGSX exhibited
another problem—the framing shown before
and after snapping a picture didn’t match, so
the perimeter of the shot appeared to .get
cropped away. Given.the fact tiiat die.Casio is
the only model that lacks an optical viewfinder,
such a ratty LCD is unforgivable ;• t
Finally, note that the Olympus D-620L
lacks, an LCD preview altogether. Because the
camera’s SLR (single*lens reflex) design lets
you frame the shot through the'same lens the
camera uses to shoot, Olympus deemed an
LCD preview unnecessary, If your eye becomes
quickly fatigued squinting through a tiny view-
firideq you'may not agree.
New Ways to Flash Strobe flashes have hardly
been a high point for digital point-and-shoot cameras
in the past, but the new mod els are making important
headway* Every camera but the Canon PowerShot
Pro70 includes a built-in flash. Canon forgoes the flash
in favor of an accessory shoe that allows you to slip on
a standard detachable flash unit. This means less-severe
‘ light, A reduced risk of red-eye and other snapshot
Hot Shots From top to bottom, with Editors' Choice picks circled:
Canon PowerShot Pro70 (first complete photo), Olympus D-400
■Zoom, Casio QV-7000SX, Nikon CooipiX‘950. Canon PowerShot PnoZO,
Olympus D-400 Zoom, Olympus D-620L. .
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Picture
. Perfect:
Cameras spoilers. You can even
select from predefined
aperture settings to
accomtnodate dafferent
brands otflashes. -
Three other cameras—tlte
’ Kodak DC265, Nikon Coolpix
950, and Olympus D-62QL —
; offer a hat-sync port;to trigger an
external strobe, which means you can
■ shoot under more-balanced lighrin a
v studio setring; Tn each case, you must
’ purchase the hot-sync cable separately
■ M / from die manufacturer.
Sometimes you may not want to use a flash
at all. For example, low-light shots often look
better with nq flash than with the harsh lighting
of a consumer strobe. In this situation, one camera
outperformed the others. When shooting neon at
night-in Las Vegas, the Olympus 0-400 Zoom did the
best job of capturing.colorful, sharply focused images
without the help of a flash or tripod.
Forays In Focus 'LCD artd flash aren’t the only areas
. of innovation in digital photography. If you’re looking
for a camera that can take extreme close-ups, the Olym¬
pus D-400 Zoom is.good and the Casio QV-7000SX and
Olympus D-340 R are even better. To cus mg as close as a
finger’s length from an object. The best of the bunch is
. ■ the Nikon'Coolpix 950, which 'can focus from just 0.8
inch away—close, enough to capture the individual defy
on a computer screen. . „
The Nikon also boasts the most-sensitive autofocus-
mg, with more than 4,000 steps of fools, suffi-
* pent to distinguish each ijiilltmeter of
depth from the next. We spent a
lot of time fighting with
the autqfbcus of the
Canon Power-
Shot Pro70
and the Olym¬
pus D-620L The
Canon camera permits
you to take close and long
shots' alike in its “macro
mode, 1 ’ but it frequently gave
warnings and failed in Jow-
light environments. The
01 y m pus a Jb s o lu t e l y
refuses to shoot a pic¬
ture if the autofocus
can’t lock on the sub¬
ject, which happens
/ as often as not.
Design and
Usability
Whether you are
s h o.oti n g a p ro d u ct
out in thb field oncap-
turing your kitPs birth-
y'W-
day party, you need a camera that’s ready to take pictures-
whenever you are. This means a reliable power supply, quick
anti.easy zoom controls; and lots of expandable storage. Tike
away any one of these, and you risk having the perfect shot. -
slip offrintb fleeting memory,
Never-Ending Need for Rower. Unlike film cameras, dig¬
ital cameras can’t work without eletfricity.JVIercifuOy, eight
of the cameras ship, with rechargeable batteries, which means
you’ll ho t'otily -spend less on disposable cells but you’ll also
be able to shoot longer on a single charge. ' -
The Epson PhotoPC 750Z, Kodak DC24Q and DC26S,
^SJinolta Dimage'RX Zoom 1500, and Olympus D-620L ship
with four A A NiMH cells and a charger. The Canon, Fuji,
and Toshiba models rely on custom batteries. The Fuji and
Toshiha camera^ let ybu charge the battery by simply plug¬
ging tile camera into a wall socket. But the AA cells represent
the more flexible solution — if die rechargeable batteries run
but of juice, you-can toss in a set of disposable opes.
- Telephoto-Troubles Ail bur the' OlympusJiL340R offer
a telep h o to 1 e n s. The C a si o zooms by 200 pe rcent, the jCa n on
by 250 percent, and the others by 300 percent. All zooms are
h motor-driven, but some are more responsive than others. The -
Casio and Kodak cameras suffer from “leaping” zooms; the
slightest touch of the zbomrcontrol has a d mm a tic effect on
■the focal length, making line framing adjustment difficult
Storing Your Shots AH 14 cameras provide expandable
memory in the form of a SmartMedia card or the more
durable' CompactFlash.card. More memory means you can,
, take more pictures at high-quality settings before you have
'r to return to your computer and transfer the images to disk,
Kodak’s DC265 bests the others by shipping with a 16MB
CompactFlash card. Epson’s PhotoPC 750Z;comes in sec- .
ontj with-an SMB CompactFlash card and 4MB of flash RAM
on board. Canon’s PowerShot Pro70.indudcsan 8MB Com- "
pactFlash card and permits you to plugin an optional second
4 v card" at the same time—helpful if you want to-shoot lots of
. pictures withoutswapping media, '
M os to f, the,;o tfrer ca merasinclude 8M B o f r e m ova b l e
memory. The exceptions are die Fuji MX-600 Zoom, Olym¬
pus D-340R, Sanvd VPC-Z400, and Toshiba PDR-M3, each of
which bandies a 4MB SmartMedia card. The $399 Olympus
D-340R is inexpensive enough to justify the reduced memory,
but the others are just plain skimpy. The Sanya VPC-Z49Q'is
1 particularly rriisefly; despite costing $K)Q more than its twin
from Agfa or Epson, it lets you shoot fewer pictures at a . time.
Giving Serial the 51 ip These memory cards are also
i jh po rta n t fo r a d i fferent ,rea soil’ — the new M a cs T ack of a se r-
lal port. However, the cards — and the adapters that let you
,' use them with your Mac—are not hassle-tree.
The FI ash Pa th a dapte r 1 e ts you . fra ns fer pi c tu re s from a
SmartMedia card using a standard floppy-disk drive. Unfortu¬
nately, it’s incompatible with Imation’s SuperDisk drive, which
rales it out for many iMaeand new-Power Mac G3 owners.
Ifyour Mac has USB port£, you can purchase a $99 mcm-
■ pry drive. We tested San Disk’s ImageMate (888/216-2489,
\ www.sandisk.com), which reads and writes CompactFlash
cards, and Haghyara Sys-Com’s FjashGate (800/358-7267,
wwiv.hscus.com}, which does the same for SmartMedia. Both 1
worked fine with every machine on which we tested then!.
For PowcrBooTt owners, the best and least-expensive solu-
a^'St^Jttifnber 1999 ArtACV/ORiP
tion is a PC Card adapter You can purchase a CompactFlash
adapter from SanOisk and several other vendors for $19, Canon
includes a free PC Card adapter with its PowerShot Pro7Q.’A
SmartMedia adapter from Olympus, Fuji, orTosKiba costs
- S79..None of these require any special drivers or other software.
One last device, Iomega’s $249 Clik drive (8Q0/697-§833,
wmvJomega.com), lets you copy images froin a Compact-
Flash or SmartMedia card to a 40MB Clik-disk. The 6-inch-
long drive is smaller than many cameras, making it-caiier to
haul around than a Power.Boak v ACiik disk costs about S10 —
compared with about SI 50 for a 40MB CompactFlash card —
so you can store more pictures at a fraction of the price* The
problem is that in order to get the images from the . Clik to
your hard need a PC/IOniiega plans to release a Mzc-
compatible USB docking station later this year;
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It'really makes our job easier when one camera thoroughly-
-troii rices its competition: It’s nor that the other cameras arc
bad—the Kodak DC265 and Olympus D-620L in particular
take great pictures—it’s just that the^Nikon Coolpix 9504s
truly exceptional It captures as many pixels as cameras costing
15 times as much; it can focus on absolutely anything, and it’s
. a whiz at metering light, even in high-contrast settings. The K
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T he most important
measure of any digi¬
tal camera is the quality of its
photographs. Unfortunately,
this also happens to be the
hardest criterion to judge.
If you shoot a scene
with a group of cameras
and compare the images
uncorrected, all you'll dis¬
cover is the camera that
works best with one partic-
ular computer setup.
Whether that camera will
work equally well with your
system is anyone's guess.
Because none of these
cameras automatically em¬
beds color profiles, there's no
way for a piece of software to
"develop" the photograph
automatically so it looks its
best from one system to the
next, I did the next-best
thing: After shooting five
photographs of a still fife with
each camera at its highest-
quality setting, I selected the
best image from each and
developed it manually inside
Photoshop. I limited myself
to gamma adjustments—
applied equally to all chan¬
nels—and uniform applica¬
tions of Unsharp Mask. The
results, shown here, better
represent what a reasonably
informed Mac user can
expect to achieve.
Even under controlled
conditions, the images devel¬
oped quite differently. Sev¬
eral cameras read the grape
iMac mouse as blue instead
of violet Also worth noting,
the mouse pad should be
emerald green, not teal. The
background contains the
grays and browns shown in
the Kodak DC265 photo¬
graph, not the yellow of the
DC240 photo or the reds the
Fuji MX-600 Zoom and
Toshiba PDR-M3 invented.
More worrisome than
these color shifts—which
are to varying extents
correctable—are occasional
omissions of detail. The
Kodak DC240 was the worst
offender, erasing the border
between the cup and the
neighboring daffodil petals.
The image from the Canon
PowerShot Pro70 is rife with
flat hot spots. The Casio and
Minolta images suffer from
too much contrast; each sac¬
rifices definition in the shad¬
ows behind the cup and the
light areas inside the flowers.
The Agfa, Epson, and
Sanyo models all performed
very well, with the Olympus
D-340R just a bit soft. The
Olympus D-400 Zoom
deserves special commenda¬
tion for outstanding atten¬
tion to crisp detail and tactile
modeling, as does the Olym¬
pus D620L. although its col¬
ors are slightly jaundiced.
The Kodak DC265 is the
champion of color accuracy,
nailing the distinction
between the warm white of
the daffodils and the cool
white of the cup. But the
clear overall winner is the
Nikon Coolpix 950, If you
enlarged each of these
images to poster size, you'd
see an attention to authentic
form and detail in the Nikon
photograph that the others
can't match.
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After alt, the days, of tethering digital cameras to a Mac
are over. Now "you am shoot your picture* remove the film
card, and stick the card in your computer* At last, the camera
works just like any another removable? media drive-one
that sees and records the world' g?' '
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,1156 are paramount, several cam¬
eras fit the bill. We really appreciated the solar-afded LCD,
wealth of memory, and rechargeable batteries the Epson
PhotoPC 75QZ provided. It’s also tlie only device to include
a power lock, so you can’t accidentally turn it an. The simi¬
lar Agfa cPhoto CL50 lacks rechargeable batteries, bur its
menu and zoom controls were easier to Work with*
* But if you had to pick one camera to take on a social occa¬
sion/! t Avon Id be the one that would get die right shot without
any fuss: the Olympus D-400 Zoom. Its compact design,
smooth* LCD display, low fight requirements, and first-rate
image quality give it an edge. Plus it ships .with a FlashPath
■ adapter, making it the only camera other than the Canon at\d
Kodak models to provide a way to download pictures to your
computer without resorting to the serial connection.
Contributing Editor DEXE MCCLELLAND is the author of Heat World
Digital Photography {Peach pit Press % 1999). - t
Best Professional Camera
MM Vj Nikon Coolpix 950 ProfessionaMevel resolution, light
metering, and focus options put this camera head and shoulders above
the rest. Company: Nikon (800/526-4566. wvm.nikonusa com)
Ust price: S999.
Best Personal Camera
MM Olympus D-400 Zoom Of all the cameras tested, this
one was the most likely to get a good shot with the least amount
of fuss. Company: Olympus (800/347-4027, www.olympus.com).
Company's estimated price: 5699.
Reviews you can trust Macworld rates only final shipping prod
ucts, not prototypes. What we review is what you can actually buy.
Digital cameras may be filmless, but they're not all fast in the field. For instance, Toshiba's
PDR-M3 makes you wait more than twice as long between taking pictures as Canon's
PowerShot Pro70. Both our Editors' Choice picks offer less frustration per frame.
Best results in red. All times in seconds.
Agfa cPhoto CL50--——-
Canon PowerShot Pro70 --
Casio QV-7000SX -
Epson PltokiPC 750Z —-—--
Fuji MX-600 Zoom---
Kodak DC240 - -^——
Kodak DC265------
Minolta Dim Age EX Zoom 1500-
★ Nikon Coolpix 950 —---
Olympus D-34Qft-——-
★ Olympus D-400 Zoom-
Olympus D-G20L--
Sanyo VPC-Z400--
Toshba POR-M3 ---
Behind Our Tests Times were recorded at each camera's highest resolution wilh the flash on Power-up time indicates the period
between turning the camera on and when ifs ready to take a picture. Time between pictures indicates the
period between pressing a camera’s shutter button and when the camera is ready to take another
shot .“Macworld Lab testing supervised by Cil Loyola
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Slide Scanners
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Show Off
Take Your Film
Digital in a Flash with
These 7 Scanners
he process of capturing images is, in large pare, a
matter of throwing visual information away. You
start with the scene you see with your eyes, which
contains all the light, shade, and color of the real world. Next
you reduce it to what film can sec—details fall from the
highlights, and shadows thicken. If you then make prints,
you throw a way-still more because a negative contains
much more subtlety of tone and color than you can' repro¬
duce in any single print.
What happens
when you make digi¬
tal edits on a 24-bit
r * Jkr -
■ * * image? You throw
o away m or e
i nfor ma cion.
This may
sound scary,
but it’s a nor-
in a l a n d
- necessary'
part of
i m age
'reproduction. The trick is to thrpw away only what you don’t
need and to not throw anything away until you'must. Conse¬
quently, when they need the best, most graphics and prepress
pros scan film rather than prints because film contains much
more visual information. -
Although flatbed scanners have become much more
capable at scanning slides and color negative film (see “Scan
In," October 1998), you'd generally get better results from
a dedicated film scanner. Why? Film scanners capture a
wider range of light and shadow, or dynamic range, than
flatbed scanners do. If you’re scanning 35 mm film, you also
benefit from the much higher resolutions available with film
scanners, since your original piece of film is so’small
, We looked at seven film scanners, ranging m price from
Ifcss than SI,000 to artiund SI7,000. (See the table, “7 Slide
Scanners Compared,” for details on each model) Four are
strictly 35mm scanners, three handle medium-format film as
well as 35mm, and two of the latter handle formats as large as
4 by 5 inches. Each of diese scanners hooks-up to a Mac with
a SCSI connector, so if you have a new blue Power Mac G3
you’ll need to get a SCSI card (see “Generation Gap,” August
1999). To test the scanners, we scanned the same difficult
image with each and asked a panel of experts to evaluate the
results;We also gave each scanner’s software a workout to see
which package is truly worth your time.
Checking Specs
. A scanner’s most basic abilities are determined by its hardware.
The two most important numbers to check out on a spec sheet
are dynamic range {often represented by a Dmax v alue) and .
resolution, in that.order.
Dynamic Range The scanners in our roundup claim
dynamic ranges from 3;0 to 4.1. This means that each unit
can capture a wide enough range of light and shadow to do
color negatives justice.
The scanners we looked at from Iniacon, the Si 1,995
FlexTight Photo- and the $16,995 FlexTiglu Precision II,
boast a massive dynamic range of 4.1, the highest we've seen
in a desktop scanner. This means they’re capable of han¬
dling virtually any quality of film you can throw at them.
Most of the others—Minolta’s
$J,P95 Dimage Scan Speed, *
Nikon’s $1,899 Super Coolscan
2000,. and Polaroid’s $9,995
SprintScan 45 Pro and $2,495 .
SprintScan 4000—cluster in the
3.4-to-3.6 range. The exceptiqn is
Nikon’s $999 Coolscan HI. Its
dynamic range of 3.0, although sat¬
isfactory’ formany purposes, is inad¬
equate for scanning higher-contrast
slides. In theory, there should be a
significant difference between a
dynamic range of 3.4 and 3.6,'but
practice we found that the scanners in
the 3.4-to-3.4 range offered similar
performance. ?*Y
Resolution When scanning 35mm
film, these scanners offer resolutions
from 2,700 to 5,760 dpi. flo put thk
perspective, most midrange flatbed scan¬
ners scan at* around 1;00() or 2,000 dpi.)
Even the lowest resolution in this group is
enough to reproduce a 3*5mm original at
tabloid size with magazine quality.
At the high end of the-scale, the Ima-
con ElexTight Precision It offers an
impressive optical resolution of 5,760 dpi
for 35mm film'. It drops to. 1,800 dp.i for
4-by-5 film, but this is still cjuite high qual¬
ity. Polaroid’s new SprintScan 4000 scans at
4,000 dpi. The Imacon FlexTight Photo
scans both 35mm and medium-format film
at 3,2QO dpi.
The Polaroid SprintScan 45 Pro has ah
optical resolution of 2,000 by 4,000 dpi/The
other scanners’ resolutions are represented.by
only one* number because as the scanning
head in those units.moves along die image, it
captures the same number of pixels in a'row as :
it does rows of pixels. The SprintScan 45 Pro
is different. Its resolution is represented by two
numbers because it interpolates (adds some pix- .
els digitally instead of capturing them). We
found that it produced rather soft scans from
35mm as a result. The Minolta Dimage Scan
Speed.has a ratjier strange resolution of 2,829
dpi. In practice, we found that this resolution
offered little or no advantage over the-2,700 dpi
of the Nik6n Coolscan III and Super Coolscan
2000 scanners.
Extra Innovations Three of the scanners .
offer a few extra hardware innovations. Both die ’
Imacon units feature very clever magnetic film
holders that bend around a drum in the scanner so -
that the film plane is always .exactly at the point of
focus. The holders won’t "damage yqur film and are "very
easy’ to load and unload. In addition, the Imacon scanners
have a feature called Adaptive Light, which slows the
scan so that more light gets pumped through the. film for -
very dense originals! Each also has a built-in light box.
. Nikon’s Coolscan III and Super Coolscan 2000 fea¬
ture a surface-defect-removal technology called Digital
ICE, which effectively removes dust and all but the
deepest scratches from scans. This isn’t just a clever
software routine—Digital ICE scans the film with
invisible wayelengths that actually' allow it to see
through surface defects to the underlying image, using
special hardware in the scanner to do so.
Seeing Is Believing
The best way to judge a scanner is by the image,it
produces, so.we tested this grQup with animage*
designed to be a scanner operator’s worst nightmare.
Our image contained strong saturated colors and
pastels. There were also flesh tones, food,,
metal, and complex near neutrals.
We produced scans with each scanner’s intellr-
gent-agent software. In. addition, we created scans
by hand to approximate the experience a fairly
seasoned user might have. We then gave the scans
to a jury of color experts who evaluated color .
fidelity', shadow detail, neutral reproduction, and
sharpness. For details about the quality of these
scans, check out the sidebar, “See for Yourself.’.’
Hassle-Free Quality In particular, we
obtained good—if.hot outstanding—results.with
Nikon’s Super Coolscan 2000 and with Imacon’s
FlexTight Photo and FlexTight Precision H. We
also achieved these results without niuch hassle.
These thr6e scanners all had robust, support for
Apple’s color-management software, Color-
Sync, and this added up to significant time sav¬
ings. By using the color profiles that came with
the scanners, we v f ere able to get consistent
color. We configured each of these scanners
to scan into Adobe RGB (Photoshop 5.0’s pre¬
ferred color space) and then converted the
scan to our proofer profile in Photoshop,
with no manual color adjustments.
Color Confusion This was not the
case with the other scanners in our group.
Like most Mac users who w f ould be in the
market for a scanner such as the ones we
tested, we used Photoshop 5.0.2 (800/
833-6687, www.adobe.com) as'our main
imaging application, and we quickly
found that the majority * of scanner
drivers aren’t yet up to speed on Photo¬
shop’s new color'architecture. (For a
Film Stars From top to bottom, with Editors'
Choice pick circled: the- Minolta Dimage Scan
Speed, Imacon FlexTight Photo,' Nikon Super
Coolscan 2000,.Minolta, Dimage Scan Speed,
Polaroid SprintScan 4000, Imacon FlexTight
Photo, and Nikon Super Coolscan 2000.
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See for Yourself
T
j he ultimate test of any scanner
1 is the image it produces.
Unfortunately, this is a difficult thing to
judge, because everyone sees images a
little differently, particularly when that
image is as complex as the one we used
for our testing.
Simply scanning with default set¬
tings rarely produces satisfactory results.
You have to make compromises (and
manual adjustments), so the biases and
skills of the scanner operator always
become part of the equation. This is
typical of how things work in the real
world—images often go through at
least two rounds of scanning and proof¬
ing before sign-off. Some scanners do a
lot better job with less work, however,
and in our roundup they were the scan¬
ners that fully support ColorSync.
To get an idea of the scanners'
capabilities, we asked a panel of experts
to evaluate several scans from each one,
including the images you see here. No
scanner could reasonably be expected to
reproduce this photo perfectly, but the
Minolta Dim3ge Scan Speed missed on
several counts, with oversaturated col¬
ors; blocked-up shadows; and a strong
red color cast that is visible in the
woman's face, the orange, the yellow
peppers, and the shadows on the table.
Polaroid's SprintScan 4000 had a
greenish cast, as you can see in the flesh
tones. The SprintScan 45 Pro had a
magenta cast that was particularly evi¬
dent in the blue tablecloth, which it
turned purplish. The SprintScan 45 Pro
also lacked sharpness. Both of the
Polaroid scanners rendered the red of
the table as more of an orange-red.
Nikon's Coofscan III oversaturated the
image somewhat, as you can see in the
tablecloth, the orange, and the peppers,
but its main limitation was that It simply
lacked the dynamic range to get all the
detail in the shadows.
Our most expensive scanners, the
Imaeon FlexTight Photo and FtexTlght
Precision II, both did very well, with
very good skin tones and no trace of
oversaturafion. The vendor-supplied
profile tended to block up the shadows
slightly, however, as you can see from
the dark shadows beneath the peppers.
Both scanners have the dynamic range
and software features that would allow
you to correct this easily.
The Nikon Super Coo (scan 2000
displayed some oversaturation but ren¬
dered all the hues in the image accu¬
rately, with good shadow detail. After
another round of scanning and proof¬
ing. either of the two Imaeon scanners
—with their greater dynamic range and
full-featured software—would likely
produce significantly better results than
the Nikon could ever achieve. But given
the difference in price, we pick the
Nikon as the best all-around value for
the money and the best buy for all but
the dedicated pro.
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.- full discussion of this problem, see ‘‘Avoid Photoshop's
- Color Calamities,” Creme ,.elsewhere in this issue.) As a
* result, we were forced to use a tedious, but fairly effective,
method to get accurate color' For details, look at “WOrk-
aroynd 2” in the aforementioned article. .
; .Using this strategy, we were able to obtain good results^
Pro and borderline results from Polaroid’s new SprimScan
4000. Only one^scatuier, the Minolta Dimage Scan Speed,
failed to produce a scan tliat the jury rated acceptable for
. color fidelity and reproduction of neutrals* /
First Impressions In the end, none of our scanners
. received a perfect score from the jury, but it's important to
bear in mind that these were all -'first scans. Clients bring dif¬
ferent biases to the table and*rarely sign ot'f on th'e first scan
they see. We’re confident that a second round of scanning
that took die jurors* preferences into account could have
produced excellent results froth any of our top three scanners.
Using the Darn Things
Although hardware determines a scanner’s basic capabilities*-
the scanner itself is only-as useful as the software that drives
it. If die scanner software doesn’t allow; you to preview the
image, accurately and correct using the 10-, 12-, or 14-bit-
per-channel damlt captures internally, you're wasting the
benefit of the extra bins. - , - *
All You Could Want The only truly full-featured scan-
hiding software in the bunch is Imaeon’s ColorFlex 1.8, which
drives botli the BlexTight Photo and, the FkxTight Precision
TL ColorFlex functions as a stand-alone ^application but
offers the option of automatically opening the scanned
ijnages in any image editor you choose, so it combines the
flexibility of scanning directly to disk with the convenience
of a Photoshop plug-in; '
The software, also allows you to specify Col or Sync pro¬
files for input, output, and display* And it’s the only scanning
package of the bunch to let you embed die output profile in
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MM S11,995 833/462-2668 35mm.
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3,200 4.1 14 A no-compromise scanner
especially for the serious
(and bank-rolled) medium-
formal shooter.
FlexTight Precision II MM
$16,935 SS8/462-2668 35mm.
www.imacon- medium
usa.com formal, 4x 5,
reflective up
to siie A4
Dim3ge Scan Speed M
$1,095 20V825 4000 35mm,
www.mmoltausa Advanced
.com Photo System
5,760
2,829
4.1 14 Awesome resolution and
dynamic range with a price
tag to match. A state-of-
the-art scanner
3 6 12
Cool scan III
Ml $999 BOO/526 4566 35mm,
www.nikonusa Advanced
.com Photo System
2.700 3.0 10
Decent hardware crippled
by primitive software.
Low dynamic range makes
scanning slides problematic.
Digital ICE technology is a
big bonus.
EDITORS' CHOICE
Super Coolscan 7000 MM
$1,899
800/526-45 66
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35 mm,
Advanced
Photo System
2,700 3.6 12 Despite software shortcom¬
ings, a very capable scanner.
Digital ICE is a big bonus.
SprintScan 45 Pro
Multi-Format Firm
Scanner
Mvi
$9,995
SOO/432-5355
www.polaroid
.com
35mm,
medium
format,
4 X 5
2,000 X 3.4 12 Decent hardware marred by
4.000 1 subpar software that fe un¬
acceptable at this price range,
Scans appeared rather soft.
SprintScan 4000
Film Scanner
♦IV*
$2,495
800/412-5355
www.polaroid
com
35mm,
Advanced
Photo System
4,000 3.4 12 Hardware shows potential,
bu : , the software needs a
massive overhaul.
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c Unmounted film only. Number of scans limited by sue of holder. 0 For negative Strips; multi pie slides require optional batch adapter.
f Scanner captures image information asymmetrically. It compensates hr this with digital interpofahon.
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the image, which makes the scanner.much easier 10 use in a
workflow that includes color management. It offers decent- -
size monitor previews and a hill complement of tools to get 1
the best scan possi ble* It also, lets yon scan in raw 4B-bit RGB
'If yon prefer to make all your corrections in Photoshop.'
Adequate Offerings The Nikon Scan 2fi software is
more of a mixed bag. It doesn’t embed ColorSync profiles,
' but it does at least allow you to specify output and. display
. profiles—Photoshop will report that the’image has'ho pro-
fi le, but voir ca n sim piy ope it .th e i m age wi ch no conversion,
thereby saving time; Unfortunately, the mechanism for
doi ng this is quite confusing and seems to work only with the ■
Super Cool scan 2000, not with die Coo bean IH.
Nikon Scan also doesn’t provide any way,to use a cus¬
tom profile for the scanner, which is liriuting both because \
individual scanners vary and because a single profile won’t
necessarily handle all film stocks equally You have to use,
dm profile supplied by Nikqn, but it works Fairly well.
On the odierfiand, the Super Cool scan 2000 lets you j
scan raw. high-bit data (die Codlscan IIPs hardware is limited
to only 10-bit data) ancl also letsyou average multiple-scans - -
to cut down shadow noise* This latter feature greatly *
improves the effective dynamic range fiut results Far very slow 4
scans, particularly since the software averages not only the
findl scan hut also the prescan. , .
Poorer Options The other software packages fare much
worse* Minolta> scanning software, Dimage Scan Speed
1*0, is very basic indeed and even lacks some Mac’key-
' board shortcuts. We can really recommend the Dimage Scan
Speed-only for Web work, where color fidelityjs generally a
happy accident if it happens at all
Polaroid’s new PolaColor Insight feejs li ke a-work in
progress* It is-'certainly-simpler and tidier than Polaroid’s *
previous scanner software, but it also lacks some of the ear- -
-diet software’s features.
PolaColor Insight ships with several generic display pro¬
files. as well as input profiles for different film stocks. These
are, in fact, ColorSync profiles, hut irfstead of actually using
ColorSync in die standard way the software installs these
profiles in its own special folder where they’re visible only
to die scanner software. This means, for example, that if
- you have a Custom profile for your monitor, you can use it
only by copying,!c'to.'this special folder. Moreover, PolaCpR
, or Insight has no facility for scanning to a Photoshop work¬
ing space or for scanning to CMYK.Vs annoying to find that
* the so ftwn re us es Col or Sy n c p ro fil es w hi J e *siin ul tan eous fy :
sabotaging any attempt to employ a Col brSync wprkfi'ow.
More troubling is the fact that we gat Very different
■ res lifts using the automatic settings on the two Polaroid
scanners* Using*" Pol a Co] or Insight’s autopilot-settings
worked pretty well on die SprintScan 45 Pro (which also
comes with the more consumer-focused PhotoPerfoct Mas-
J ter software,'from Binuscan) and quite poorly on the new
SprintSeah 4000—so poorly, in fact, that although the
SprintSeah 4000’s hardware is quite impressive, we cannot
recommend the mode) until Polaroid improves its.soft- s
ware* Reportedly, Polaroid plans to address"these short¬
comings, hut at press time no release date for the next ver¬
sion of the software was available* '
fU
Macworld's Buying Advice
All things considered, die Nikon
Super Cool scan 2000 will give you
the best scans for your money Its "
implementation of ColorSync is rather \
sftange but works well once you’ve-figured it out In addition,
die Digital ICE technology will save you hours of work get¬
ting rid of dust spots and scratches.
Depending on your needs and the size of your waller,
however, two other scanners are well worth considering. If
you want to make a serious investment in a scan ner that will
likely represent the state of the art for several years to come-,
the Intacon FlexTight Precision II is a beautiful — albeit
^expensive—piece of work. It offers the highest resolution
and dynamic range we’ve seen in desktop scajiner, and it
has full-featured software. If you don’t need the larger film
capability or more than 3,200-tipi resolution on 35mm film,
the FlexTight Photo delivers 90 percent of the performance
, at about two-thirds die price,' - v '
The current generation of fil in-sca nning hardware is
the best yet, with relatively inexpensive devices produc¬
ing results that are more than adequate for most image-
reproduction processes and certainly good enough for all
but the finest-quality offset printing. It’s somewhat dis¬
appointing to see that the scanner software is lagging
behind the hardware, but we ? re confidentthat.it will catch
.up eventually, m
Coritributing Editor &RAJCE FRASER is a coauthor of Real World
Photoshop !> (Peachpit Press. 1998).
EDITORS' CHOICE
MM Nikon Super CooFscan 2000 Although we have some reser¬
vations about Nikon's software, this is a fine scanner for the price. Com¬
pany: Nikon (£00/526-4566. www.nikonusa.com). List price: S1.B99.
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SECRETS OF THE MAC'S B U I LT- f N F I L E - C O N V E R SI O N TOOLS
by Joseph Schorr
here are two computers on my
desk—one Macintosh and one
PC—and lately they’ve been get¬
ting along quite well. Part of the
reason is that exchanging files
has gotten easier with Mac OS
8,5% File Exchange 3.0 control
panel. Kile Exchange has two
basic functions—opening a PC
file based on the extension used in the
file’s name (such as xxt or .doc) and
determining which program can open a
document when the application that cre¬
ated it can’t he found.
However, both parts of File Exchange
can be used to do much more than open
and convert files. Here’s how to tap into
other aspects of File Exchange’s file¬
handling smarts.
Streamline the Creation of PDFs
You may think of File Exchange as a tool
strictly for crossing from PC to Mac or
vice versa, hut its ability to link specific
document types to specific applications
can pay off in other ways—even if you
never touch a single PC disk.
One useful trick, for example, is to
turn PostScript files into PDFs simply by
double-clicking on them. To configure
File Exchange for this trick, follow these
steps: In the File Translation panel of
File Exchange, click on the Add button
to open the Add Translation Preference
dialog box. Select a PostScript file in the
dialog box, and then click on Continue.
From the list of applications available to
open the file, choose Acrobat Distiller,
and click on OK. (You may have to turn
off the Show Recommended Choices
Only check box to make Distiller appear
as a choice in the window*) You’ll end up
with a translation-preference listing like
the one shown in “Click to Distill.” Now
when you double-click on a PostScript
file, your Mac will launch Distiller and
process the file, no questions asked.
You Choose the Application
With the help of the PC Exchange win¬
dow in File Exchange, you can even con¬
trol which program will open a given
file—simply by changing the file’s name.
That's because PC Exchange chooses the
program it will use to open up a PC file
based on the DOS-style extension tacked
on the end of the file’s name: double¬
dick on a .doc file, and Microsoft Word
is launched; double-click on a .xls file,
and you get Excel; and so on* Change a
file’s name to include a different exten¬
sion, and PC Exchange will fire up a difi¬
fe re n t a p p 1 i ea ti on to I a u 11 eh i r.
Imagine you have three text files
imported from □ PC. All three files bear
the ,txt extension, but one of them is a
document created in a word processor,
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J ust about everyone knows that a doc file is a
Microsoft Word document. But what exactly is
a .pot file or a ram document? If you mix with
the Windows world with some frequency, you* 11
probably encounter such fifes and want to know
what they are.
in such cases, you can use Fife Exchange as a
miniglossary that serves as a guide to the world of
PC extension names. By default the control panel
lists more than 200 different extensions (along with
the names of the applications needed to read them).
To find out which application belongs to a particular
extension, just dick on File Exchange's PC Exchange
tab and type the first letter or two of the extension
to jump straight down to the appropriate entry in
the list. Moments later you'll find out that a pot file
is a PowerPoint template and that those .ram files
your friends sent you are Real Player documents.
You can do reverse lookups, too. Need to know
what the three-letter PC extension is for a Microsoft
Excel template? Click on the Application header in
the PC Exchange list, and type the first few letters of
the word Microsoft to see all the extension entries
for Excel—-including ,xlt for Excel templates.
one is a tab-delimited text Hie exported
from a database, and the third is financial
data exported from a spreadsheet
By default, double-clicking will open
all three as SimpleText files—readable
hut not terribly useful. With a few key¬
strokes, though, you can have each file
open in a more appropriate application.
Click to Distill This translation preference in File
Exchange causes PostScript files to automatically
open in Acrobat Distil fee allowing you to turn them
into PDF files simply by double-clicking on them.
Add a .find to the name of the second file,
for example, and double-clicking on it
will launch FileMaker Pro, putting the
data into a new database* Change the end
of the third file’s name to ,xls, and die
spreadsheet data will open in Excel.
Alternatively, you can choose which
program you want to use to open a specific
file by turning oft the second check box in
die PC Exchange window—the one that
says Open Unmapped Files On Any Disk
Using Mappings Below, With that option
turned off, when you doublc-click on a
Windows file, youll see all the available
applications that can open the file Just pick
die one you want to use from die list.
Control Numerous Files
The previous secret is useful
if you have a handful of indi¬
vidual files that need convert¬
ing, but what if you have
dozens—or even hundreds—
of files you need to open with
a specific program? Instead of
adding die correct extension
to each file’s name, you can
create a global translation
preference in File Exchange
that teaches your Mac to open
the files in whatever applica¬
tion you want, regardless of
how the files are named.
For example, you could
configure File Exchange so
that multiple HTML files
created on a PC would open
directly in a Web authoring
program, such as Adobe Go-
Live. To do this, go to File
Exchange's File Translation
panel and click on Adel. Select
one of the PC HTML files
(you can just drag one from
die Finder straight into the
Add Translation Preference
window to select it), and click on Con¬
tinue, From the list of applications avail¬
able to open the file, choose GoLive, and
click on OK. The translation preference
will now cause die PC files to open in
GoLive (see “Program of Preference”).
After you’re done editing all those
pages, you can change the translation pref¬
erence again, deleting the GoLive prefer¬
ence and replacing it with a mapping that
links die HTML files to, say, Internet
Explorer. Now, clicking on the same
HTML files will make them open not
in GoLive but in Internet Explorer.
Even with these tips, you’re still
likely to encounter the odd file that takes
a little more effort to open, but with File
Exchange properly configured, most of
the journeys your files take from Win¬
dows to the Mac OS should involve little
more than a simple double-click, m
JOSEPH SCHORR is a coauthor of MtmrtdMac
Sencts, fifth edition (IDG Books Worldwide,
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by Lon Poole
L ove your iMac or blue-and-white
G3, liut hate its %$#©! round
mouse? Frank Sauer of Res ton,
Virginia, found a simple way to
i m p ro v e i ts e rgo n o m i cs* Bu y a tu be
of Tester’s cement for plastic models
(number 3501)* Put four or five tiny
beads of glue on the mouse's equator at
the colored-plastic parts, using a tooth¬
pick or a straightened paper clip to con¬
trol bead size. Wait about two hours for
the glue to dry Presto—you now have
tactile reassurance that you've grasped
the mouse properly and it's pointing in
the right direction* The principle is the
same as the small guide beads on the
surface of the F and J (or D and K) keys
on your keyboard; to let you orient your
fingers without looking.
If you don't have one of die newer
round mice with the dimpled button,
try what Troy Daniel sen of Wellsville,
Utah, recommends: place a single touch-
reference dot of ordinary white glue on
the mouse button. When dry, the glue
becomes translucent, letting the color of
the mouse plastic show through*
Transfer Files to Your iMac
Q Pm considering buying an iMac,
- but how will I transfer all the info
from my Per forma 6290 (which has only
serial* ADB, and SCSI ports) to an iMac
(which has only USB)?
Sean Harris
Columbus, Obio
A The simplest solution is to buy
. a Zip drive for each computer,
download your hies to a Zip disk, and
then transfer them. The cheapest solution
is to transfer files via the Internet. For
example, you can get 25MB of space for
just this purpose at www.freemacspace
.com. Caveat: If you have a modem con¬
nection to the Internet, consider the
hours you'll spend uploading each 25MB
from vour old Mac and then download¬
ing that 25MB to the Mac.
The most expeditions solution is to
connect the two computers via Ethernet
(as described in December 1998's Quick
Tips) and use die Mac OS file-sharing
feature to transfer files. Since your old
Mac apparently does not have the
optional Ethernet port, you must cither
add one, or attach a LocalTalk connector
to the 6290's serial port and bridge
Online, the latest Global Village software,
and so on, and put the old modem script
named Platinum V Modem Definition in
die Modem Scripts folder in the Extensions
folder, where it belongs. Now I can connect
to AOL, use a little app called Set Clock,
and send and receive faxes, but I can't con¬
nect via an Apple Works communications
document The modem dials correctly but
can’t make a final connection; after the
usual squawking sound, it emits a continu¬
ous high-pitched rone. Pm stumped.
Jiaj Sen w a L M
Roc it ford t Illinois
A.
LocalTalk ro Ethernet with a device such
as A saute's AsanteTalk or Fatal l on's
EtherMac [Print Adapter LT (as illus¬
trated in January 1999's Quick Tips).
Connect Through AppleY/orks
Q My Performa 6300CD's internal
. Global M l 1 age Tele Port P latinum V
modem worked fine until I cleaned up my
hard drive* I did a dean installation of Mac
OS 8*5.1 T Apple Works 5.03, America
Apple Works (a.k.a.
Claris Works) does not
use items in the Modem
Scripts folder It uses another
item in the Extensions folder
called the Apple Modem Tool,
which is initially configured
for a generic Hayes-compati¬
ble modem. You can change
the configuration using Apple*
Works and your old Platinum
V Modem Definition file or a
newer modem-definition file
(look in Global Village Soft¬
ware: Scripts: GV Modem
Defs. for AMT 1.5).
Open your Apple Works
com m u nicati o ns d ocument
and choose Connection from
the Settings menu. In the Connection
Setting dialog box that appears, make
sure that you have the Method pop-up
menu set to Apple Modem Tool, and
then choose Modify This Menu from
the Modem pop-up menu. In the next
dialog box, click the Import button, and
then in the following dialog box, select
your modem-definition file. Click Open
and then Done to get back to the main
Connection Setting dialog box, where
the Modem pop-up menu now lists the
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addition til modem definitions. Choose
the one that’s right for your modem
(Global Milage tech support should be
able to help you determine which one),
select the port to which you have your
modem connected, and click OK,
Simulate Missing Keys
Do you find yourself missing
the end and forward-delete
keys on your iMac, blue G3, or older
PowerBook keyboard? Here’s how to
simulate them, using Chris Cummer’s
S5 shareware ASCII Shall Receive in
conjunction with any commercial or
shareware program that lets you assign
typed text to a keystroke or function key,
such as Connectix’s $60 Speed Doubler 8
(www, connectix.com).
Open ASCII Shall Receive, and
choose ASCII from the pop-up menu
and then List All from the File menu.
Scroll to ASCII! character 4; this is the
character for the end key. Select this
line and control-drag it to the desktop
to create a clipping file containing just
the character. Open the dipping file
and choose Copy from the Edit menu.
Open SpeedDouhler 8, select the box
that receives the typed text, and choose
Paste from the Edit menu. Then speci¬
fy the keystroke you want to simulate
the end key (I used control-page down)
and click OK.
Repeat this process for forward-
delete by copying ASCII character 127,
pasting it into SpeedDouhler 8, and
assigning a di fferen t kcysnoke. I assigned
FI2 in trigger forward-delete, since it’s
right above the delete key, but control-
delete would be another good choice.
Mike McKay
Vvtit!gf(o7?f}> Ohio
Other keys van may Mint to simulate mi an older
Rawer Rmk keyboard: home is ASCII /, page up
is ASCII 1 L ami page dams is ASCU 12,—LR
TIP
with the <nobr> (no break) HTML tag,
which older browsers support as well.
The <nobr> opening tag has a matching
</nobr> closing tag, Here’s an example:
<nobr>
cimg src-"image-r><img src=’ , /mdge-2">
</nobr>
You can put text and tables as well as
images between <nobi> and </nobr>,
and you can designate discretionary
breaks with <wbr> tags. But take care
not to leave any stray spaces between
images or other elements that <nobr>
and </nobr> enclose.
Adolfo Quevedo
Miami, Florida
Fix Word's Format Update
Microsoft Word 98 has an
annoying bug that crops up in
documents using an attached template
other than Normal. If you selected the
Automatically Update Document Styles
option when you attached the template
via the Templaces And Add-ins dialog
box, you may find that after you use die
TIP
Repair Word's Format Bug If you're using the for¬
mat painter in an attached template other than
Normal in Microsoft Word 98 p you can restore for¬
matting lost in ’ unpainted" paragraphs by fiddling
with the Automatically Update Document Styles
option, shown here.
Eliminate Web Image Gaps
T[D | When creating a Web page, you
1 Ir can use HTML styles to posi¬
tion two images without a separation.
However, HTML styles are complicated
and work only in Netscape Navigator and
.Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 4.X
and later. Instead, keep images together
format painter, some “unpainted" para¬
graphs lose the attributes of their
assigned styles. If this happens, don’t
panic—you can restore the style format¬
ting to all affected paragraphs by reset¬
ting the option. To do this, choose Tem¬
plates And Add-ins from the Tools menu.
In the dialog box that appears, turn off
the Automatically Update Document
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Styles option and click OK (see “Repair
Word’s Format Bug”). Immediately
repeat the same steps, this time turning
the option hack on, and click OK, This
should restore your paragraph's original
style formatting.
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Ruh'igb, North Carolina
Yon might also fry the Reset Character For¬
matting command (%%-shift-Z) and Reset Para
(a^-option-Q). Von don't normally see these
commands on any menu, although you can add
the?// to a menu or a tool bar rising the Cus¬
tomize command in Word's Tools menu, — L.R
Adjust Sound-Effects Volume
-i-i p If you have sound effects turned
, " on in the Appearance control
panel of Mac OS 8.5 or later and want to
change their volume independent of
other sounds on your Mac, adjust System
Alert Volume in the Alerts section of the
Monitors & Sound control panel rather
than Computer System Volume in the
Sound section,
Daniel Vanwie
IVbittitr, California
Count Words in Excel
Here is a simple approach to
counting the number of words
in a cell {here, cell F9) of a Microsoft
Excel worksheet:
=LEN(TRIM(F9))-
LENCSUBSTITUTEfTRIMfFB),'*
An interesting extension of this for¬
mula counts the number of words in a
range (here, F9:FI6):
{=SUM(LEN{TRtM(F9:F16))-LEN(SUBSTJ-
TUTE(TRIM(F9:F16)/ rt r “*))+1))
This is an array formula, so don't
type the outer curly brackets; instead,
press ^-return when you create or edit
the formula, and Excel adds them,
Shame Devonshire
H ttimti Creek, California
TIP
Quickly Edit Icon Names
If you want to edit an icon
name, you don’t have to wait
several seconds for the text to turn high¬
lighted after you've clicked the icon
name in the Finder, Instead, just cdick the
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103 September 1999 MACWORLD
icon and immediately press enter or
return to highlight the name.
Rich Glass
Brooklyn Park , Minnesota
In order to set the insertion point at the begin¬
ning or end of the name, just perform the
actions mentioned above, and then immedi¬
ately press one of the arrow keys ♦ In order to
select a whole name quickly with the mouse
alone , simply click the name and as soon as
you release the mouse button move the mouse
slightly*—L.R
Conned Invisibly
If your Mac has the Control Strip, you
needn't launch the Remote Access or
PPP control panel to avoid the modal
dialog box that blocks other work while
connecting or disconnecting a dial-up
Internet connection (as suggested in July
1999 s Quick Tips).
James A. Baker of Murfreesboro,
Tennessee, was the first of several readers
to point out that die Remote Access
module, which is standard on the Con¬
trol Strip in Mac OS 8.5 and later, has
Connect and Disconnect commands that
work invisibly. If you use Mac OS 8.1 or
earlier, Catherine Hummel of Holly¬
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OTPPP Strip, a free Control Strip
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.netgate.net/~simeon/software.html)- no
waiting, no window!
If your Mac doesn't have die Control
Strip, you can install it by doing a custom
installation of Mac OS 7.6 through 8.1.
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Avoid Photoshop’s Color Calamities
HOW TO NAVIGATE AROUND PHOTOSHOP'S RGB COLOR-SPACE PITFALLS
by Bruce Fraser
D esktop color-management tech¬
nologies give designers the possi¬
bilities of superior color control—
but also some serious headaches. A
prime example is one of the more
controversial color-management fea¬
tures of Adobe's Photoshop 5: the adop¬
tion of RGB color-space definitions
that are not based only on your moni¬
tor This was a great leap forward for
color on the desktop (see the sidebar,
"Why Use RGB Color Spaces? 51 ), hut
created problems with most scanner-
driver software on the market. As a
result, the image you see in your scan¬
ner software often looks different when
it arrives in Photoshop. So how can you
reconcile the two, end up with an image
that has the colors you want, and make
sure they stay that way?
A Troubling Mismatch
Most scanner software does not yet take
advantage of Apple's ColorSync color-
management technology, and simply
sends your image’s RGB values directly
to your monitor. (If you’re fairly new
to color management or you aren’t sure
how ColorSync works, check out
Apple's ColorSync Web site at www
.colorsync.com,) Photoshop 5, however,
interprets these RGB values according
to the settings you’ve made in the RGB
Setup dialog box and uses your Culor-
Sync System Profile to transform the
values that get sent to your monitor (see
the screen shot “Your Monitor's Pro¬
file”). This disagreement between
Photoshop and your scanner software
creates color havoc—how can you tell
what your image will really look like?
You have a number of options for
avoiding the color-fidelity problems
that arise when you're scanning into
Photoshop 5, For one, you can just
hobble Photoshop 5 by using your
monitor RGB as Photoshop's RGB
workspace, but this isn't a great idea
(see “Workaround 1; Downgrade
Photoshop 5," below)—plus it defeats
part of the purpose of upgrading to
Photoshop 5 in the first place.
Other options let you reap the bene¬
fits of Photoshop 5's advances but
involve a little more effort with your
scanner software. For example, some¬
times your best bet may be to do the
bulk of your editing in the scanner soft¬
ware (see "Workaround 2: Correct the
Prescan Image," below). Most scanners
can capture more than 8 hits per channel
but are limited to 8 bits on output. You
can obtain significantly better quality by
making as many of your large edits as
possible in the scanner software, where
you'll have more data and more detail to
work with, rather than editing the
reduced data in Photoshop.
When you edit the high-bit data in
your scanner software, you still end up
with a full 256 levels per channel in the
final 24-bit image. But when you edit
this image in Photoshop, you immedi¬
ately start to lose some of the possible
levels in each channel (see the screen
shot “Image Quality Control”), For
example, when you make tone or color
corrections on a 24-hit image, some lev¬
els that were formerly adjacent get
stretched apart. If they get stretched too
far apart, you start to see obvious jumps
of color instead of smooth gradations—
a phenomenon called posterizat ion. Sim¬
ilarly, some levels that were formerly
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CREATE GRAPHICS
apart get squashed together, resulting
in loss of detail. So there’s a stgnifi-
cant advantage to editvng the high-bit
data in the scanner software instead.
But then again, if the scanner soft-
□ . ColdrSyrpt H
Your Monitor's Profile To use a custom monitor pro¬
file on your Mac, you must toad it in the ColorSync
control panel as the System Profile. {Currently, only
AppleScript uses the RGB Default and CMYK Default
settings, so if you aren't scripting ColorSync conver¬
sion you can ignore them.)
ware displays the image differently
than Photoshop, you may wind up
with an image that looks beautiful in
the prescan display but awful in
Photoshop.
If your scanner has a color profile,
you can use that to convert the color
values to those in Photoshop's RGB
profile (see “Workaround 3: Convert
from Your Scanner Profile/’ below).
But some scanner drivers insist on
making automatic corrections and
don’t let you turn this feature off—in
this case it’s impossible to create a
ColorSync profile for the scanner. To
profile a scanner (or any other
device), you must be able to keep it in
a consistent state; automatic correc¬
tions mean that the scanner scans
each image differently.
Even better is when your scanner
driver allows you to scan to an output
profile (see “Workaround 4: Choose
Your Output Profile,” below). Heidel¬
berg CPS's LinoColor, Ini aeon's
ColorFlex LB, LaserSoft’s SilverFast,
Nikon's scanner software, and Second
Glance's ScnnTastie all let you do this,
and other scanner-software makers are
likely to follow suit in future.
The best option of all may be to
bring a high-hit image into Photo¬
shop if your scanner software can
save high-bit scans (a growing num-
Why Use RGB Color Spaces?
APPLICATIONS WITHOUT COLOR-MANAGEMENT FEATURES SIMPLY
send the RGB values in your image directly to your monitor. This creates sev¬
eral problems.
• Since every monitor behaves differently (sometimes a lot differently),
when you send the same RGB numbers to different monitors, the Images
don't look the same. Even when you calibrate monitors to the same specifi¬
cations, it's rare for them to match exactly.
• Monitor color gamut“-the range of colors a monitor can reproduce—is
generally larger than the gamut of most output devices, including printing
presses. However, it's much smaller than the gamut of film, and it also limits
some of the colors you can reproduce on a press, particularly cyans, and adja¬
cent blues and greens. If you work In monitor RGB, you limit the range of col¬
ors you can capture In your scans, as well as the range of colors you can print
• Monitors are inherently nonlinear, and their RGB color spaces are percep¬
tually nonurtiform. This means the same increment of change you gain by
using editing tools such as Photoshop's Levels, Curves, or Hue/Saturation
may produce varying perceptual changes in different parts of an image's tonal
range or color gamut, The same move may result in a barely perceptible
change or in a large jump, depending on where you apply it.
Photoshop 5 lets you address all three of these issues by uncoupling the
RGB color space from the monitor—ft's an arbitrary color space that doesn't
depend on the quirks of any particular device. For maximum editing flexibil¬
ity, you can select a perceptually uniform RGB workspace with a large enough
gamut to encompass your devices. Plus, you can standardize on a single RGB
workspace for your workgroup and then move files around from one
machine to another without worrying about color variations.
By default, Photoshop 5 automatically embeds a ColorSync profile in every
image when you save it. When you move the image to another machine,
Photoshop knows what actual colors the RGB values represent—or, to put it
another way, the program knows what the colors are supposed to look like.
Photoshop's Display Using Monitor Compensation feature (see the
screen shot "Downgrading Photoshop") uses the information stored in your
ColorSync System Profile to perform a customized on-the-fly conversion of
the RGB values in the image file as they’re sent to your monitor. This makes
it possible for the image to appear the same on everyone's monitor, as long
as the ColorSync profile describes your monitor accurately.
Image Quality Control The 16-bit-per-channel image on the
right and the 8-bit-per-channel image on the left may look sim¬
ilar, but their histograms show a big difference. The higher-bit
image contains a full 256 levels in each channel, but the 8-bit
image has Jots of missing levels that will cause the image qual¬
ity to deteriorate under subsequent editing.
her of scanner drivers can do
this). When von save a high-
hit scan, you're grabbing all
the data the scanner can cap¬
ture (see “Workaround 5:
Import Masses of Raw Data/ 1
below). This will create a huge
file, but all the image's data
will he there for you to edit as
needed in Photoshop,
Choosing a Lesser Evil
Depending on the capabilities
of your particular scanner soft¬
ware, you can use one or more
of the workarounds discussed
below (presented from least to
most desirable) to get around
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file Setup from the File menu’s Color Settings submenu.
In the Profile Setup dialog box (above), set all the
Assumed Profiles settings and Profile Mismatch Han¬
dling settings to Ask When Opening.
When Photoshop's Profile Setup is configured like
this, you’ll see the Missing Profile dialog box (below)
when you open a file that has no embedded profile. You
can then convert the image into your RGB color space as
it opens, instead of using Profile To Profile after the fact.
the mismatch between Photoshop’s
RGB and your scanner’s RGB. At
least one of these solutions should
work for you.
Note: All the workarounds assume
that your scanner driver operates as a
Photoshop plug-in. If you scan to disk
with a stand-alone application and you
have Photoshop set up to warn you of
profile mismatches (see the screen shot
“Automatic Mismatch Warning”), you
can use the Profile Mismatch Han¬
dling feature instead of Profile To Pro¬
file to make conversions, using the
same settings mentioned in each work¬
around below.
Workaround 1: Downgrade
Photoshop 5
The simplest solution is to make
Photoshop 5 behave like older versions
of the program. I recommend using
this approach only if your scanner soft¬
ware doesn’t let you turn off automatic
corrections, doesn’t support high-bit
export, and doesn’t support output
profiles —mid you can’t he bothered to
learn to work with the new behavior of
Photoshop 5.
What to Do In Photoshop 5,
choose RGB Setup from the File
menu’s Color Settings submenu. In the
resulting dialog box, choose Monitor
RGB from the RGB pop-up menu,
and turn Display Using Monitor
Compensation off (see the screen shot
“Downgrading Photoshop”).
Pros The problem disappears,
because Photoshop now simply sends
the RGB values in the file straight to
the screen.
Cons The fairly substantial dis¬
advantage is that you lose all the ben¬
efits of the RGB color-space
approach introduced in Photoshop 5.
Your color gamut is limited to what
your monitor can display, and vour
editing space won’t he perceptually
uniform (see “Why Use RGB Color
Spaces?” fora definition). Plus, if you
send the files to someone else, they’ll
have to run the files through a con¬
version process to get them to display
properly. And even if they are also
using Monitor RGB as their color
workspace, it’s extremely unlikely
that their monitor’s color quirks will
match yours.
Workaround 2: Correct the
Prescan Image
Even if your scanner software doesn’t
let you turn off automatic corrections,
doesn’t support high-bit export, and
doesn’t support output profiles, there’s
a better solution than downgrading
Photoshop 5. If you correct an image
based on the prescan, you can make
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RGB from the RGB pop-up menu in the RGB Setup
dialog box. and then turn Display Using Monitor
Compensation off. Photoshop will then simply send
raw RGB values to your monitor,
your monitor, not your scanner, the
source profile for the image.
What to Do Scan as usual, mak¬
ing the image look good in the prescan
(see the screen shot “Prescan Edit¬
ing”). Once the image is in Photoshop,
choose Profile To Profile from the
Image menu’s Mode submenu. In the
Profile To Profile dialog box (see the
screen shot “Converting Your Monitor
Profile”), choose your monitor profile
in the From pop-up menu. In the To
pop-up menu, choose RGB Color. For
the Engine pop-up menu, I generally
recommend choosing Built-In, hut in
most cases you’ll get virtually identical
results no matter which engine you
use. Then choose Perceptual (Images)
from the Intent pop-up menu, turn
Black Point Compensation off, and
click on OK to perform the correction.
Once it’s done, the image should look
the same in Photoshop as it did in your
scanner driver.
Prescan Editing If your scanner software sends raw
RGB values to the monitor, you can use that software
to edit the prescan and use the monitor profile to bring
the image into Photoshop's RGB workspace.
Pros This approach is fairly sim¬
ple, lets you scan the way you’re used
to scanning, and allows you to take
advantage of most of Photoshop’s new
color-handling features.
Cons The colors in the scan are
limited to those your monitor can dis¬
play. .And since the conversion is per¬
formed on 24-hit data, you may lose
some image quality'.
Workaround 3: Convert from
Your Scanner Profile
If you have a profile for the scanner—
and the scanner driver allows you to
disable all automatic corrections—
converting the profile is a more favor¬
able approach.
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CREATE GRAPHICS
Converting Your Scanner Profile To convert an
image from your scanner's RGB color space into
Photoshop's RGB colorspace, use Photoshop's Pro¬
file To Profile command. Choose your scanner profile
in the From pop-up menu, and RGB Color in the To
pop-up menu.
What to Do Sean the linage with
no corrections. In Photoshop, choose
Profile To Profile from the Image
menu's Mode submenu. In the Profile
To Profile dialog box (see the screen
shot tl Converting Your Scanner Pro¬
file"), choose your scanner profile in
the From pop-up menu, and RGB
Color in the lb pop-up menu. Then
choose Built-In from the Engine pop¬
up menu, and Perceptual (Images)
from the Intent menu. Turn Black
Point Compensation off and click on
OK. Once the conversion is done, the
resulting image should look very much
like the original.
Pros You can preserve colors that
lie outside your monitor’s gamut.
Cons Since the conversion is per¬
formed on 24-hit data, you may lose
some image quality.
Workaround 4: Choose Your
Output Profile
II your scanner driver allows von to
choose an output profile, use the
Photoshop 5 RGB color space. You
can create a ColorSync profile for
your RGB workspace by clicking the
Save button in Photoshop’s RGB
Setup dialog box (see the screen shot
“Saving a ColorSync Profile"), To
make this profile available to other
applications and to your scanner soft¬
ware, make sure you save it in your
ColorSync Profiles folder, which you
can find at the root level of your Sys¬
tem Folder.
What to Do Scan as usual, mak¬
ing global corrections in the scanner
software. When the image lands in
Photoshop, it will look the same as it
did in the scanner software.
Pros You can preserve all the
colors your scanner can capture. Plus,
you 1 11 get better image quality
because the color conversion is per¬
formed on the high-bit scanner data
rather than the 24-bit final image.
Cons You’re making all your edits
based on a smallish prescan image, so
you can't see all the detail in the final
scan. Also, your scanner software’s
tools are most likely not nearly as com¬
prehensive as Photoshops,
Workaround 5: import Masses
of Raw Data
If your scanner driver allows it, bring
the raw high-hit scanner data—with
no prescan corrections—-into Photo¬
shop as a 48-hit RGB file, and make all
your corrections in Photoshop,
What to Do Set die image crop
and resolution in your scanner soft¬
Cons The file size is
twice as large (at least ini¬
tially) as that of a 24-hit
image. Once you’ve done
the conversions, you can
downsize the image to 8
hits per channel by choos¬
ing H Bits/Channel from
the Mode submenu on the
linage menu. However, you
could make a good case for
archiving the high-hit file
for future conversions to
output devices, since you’ll
always get a better result
doing the conversions on
48-bii data than you will on
24-bit data.
The new color architec¬
ture in Photoshop 5 may
cause a few folks to do some
head scratching, but this
feature really does offer
some major advantages over
the old ways. Eventually all
scanner software will inte¬
grate seamlessly with Photoshop 5,
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should help you work around the mis¬
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the resulting profile in the ColorSync Profiles folder so that your
scanner software (and other ColorSync-sawy applications) can
locate and use it.
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your image from the Monitor RGB color space into
Photoshop s RGB color space using Photoshop's Pro¬
file To Profile command, lust choose your monitor
profile in the From pop-up menu, and choose RGB
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GRAPHICS
Fast, Filmless Photo Collages
TRANSFORM D i G I TA L - C A M E R A SNAPS INTO INSTANT ART
by Mike Wooldridge
D igital cameras still can't quite
match film's image quality when it
comes to high-end photography,
but they do offer distinct advan¬
tages when it comes to the artistic
process. With a digital camera, you
don't have to interrupt your creative
momentum by sending out film for pro¬
cessing. Instead, you can immediately
dive into the results of photo sessions
and begin creating*
San Francisco-based photographer
John Lund, though schooled in tradi¬
tional film-based techniques, discovered
digital imaging eight years ago and has
never looked back. He likes to use a dig¬
ital camera so he can begin work on his
photo art only moments after shooting.
For this Magritte-like photo collage,
Blinders, Lund shot most of the ele¬
ments—the train, the umbrella-toting
man, and the blinders (composed of a
belt and a wallet)—in his studio with a
digital camera. This piece is typical of
the surreal artwork he creates for his
many clients, including Federal Express,
IBM, Kodak, and UPS (you can view
more of his art at www.johnlund.com).
Digital artists tend to rely exclusively
on Adobe Photoshop for digital-image
editing, but Lund says that many artists
—including him—prefer Live Picture.
He finds its brush-based tools more effi¬
cient and precise than Photoshop’s filters
for mixing the different photographic
elements in his work.
Lund shoots images in his studio
using a Leaf DCB I digital camera with
2,048-by-2,048-pixel resolution. He
then imports them onto a DayStar Gen¬
esis Mac clone with four 2Q0MHz pro¬
cessors. In addition to Live Picture 2.5.1,
he uses Photoshop 4 and 5. m
Full Steam Ahead The completed Live Picture collage included 51 layers, Lund finished by rendering
the image as a TIFF file and then bringing it into Photoshop to touch up any remaining stray pixels. He
also adjusted the Hue/Saturation controls in Photoshop to give the piece its sepia coloring. The resulting
image is a surreal and startling juxtaposition of photo elements that required no trips to FotoMat.
MIKE. WOOLDRIDGE is a freelance writer and
new-media developer based in Berkeley, California.
110 September 1999 MACWORLD
O Lund started by photo¬
graphing a miniature model
train in his studio. After
importing the digital photo
into Photoshop, he duplicated
the file and applied the Zoom
Blur filter to create a version
of the train that conveyed a
sense of speed. Then in Live
Picture he painted parts of the
blurred version on top of the
original image, so he could
depict the illusion of motion
while keeping some of the
train's details sharp.
the softness of the smoke and
steam intact. Then he added
a few more sharpen and blur
effects in Live Picture to com¬
plete the background.
O Lund shot the image of
the man with the bowler hat
and umbrella in his studio with
a digital camera. He brought
the image into Photoshop and
masked it from the back¬
ground using the pen tool.
Then Lund imported the image
and its alpha-
channel mask into
the Live Picture
file containing
the train, smoke,
and steam.
O Next, Lund built the
blinders on the man's face by
photographing a belt and a
wallet separately. He photo¬
graphed the belt wrapped
around the model's face so it
would have the right shape
when added to the collage.
In Live Picture, he painted
strips of dark color beneath
the belt sections to create
subtle shadowing on the
man's face, and added an
extra layer of color
atop the wallet to
give it a more
wrinkled look.
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WORKFLOW
rate
Collaborate Long-Distance
SPAN THE MILES WITH THE RIGHT SOFTWARE AND SOME TELEWORKING TIPS
by J i m Held
I t used to be that the people who
worked together on a project were
located under the same roof. Today,
they might not be on the same conti¬
nent, The Internet has enabled work¬
ers to scatter like dandelion seeds in a
gale, and it isn’t unusual to find yourself
working closely with someone you’ve
never met in person.
Telecommuting is wonderful, hut it
does introduce complications. How can
you proof and comment on page designs
and other documents without the delay
and expense of couriers? How can you
brainstorm in real time without racking
up huge phone bills? How can you mon¬
itor or control a Web server that’s located
a thousand miles away?
Several software tools can help you
address these issues. Here’s a guide to
stocking a remote-collaboration toolbox,
and some tips for my favorite tools.
Please Comment ASAP
They’re common requests: Look over
the latest brochure layout and get back to
me. Approve the new logo design. Proof
the annual report before tomorrow.
These chores used to mean last-
minute sprints to the express mail drop¬
off box. Then fax machines came along
and made their contributions to eyestrain
and aggravation. E-mail has made it far
more convenient to move documents
around, and business software has
WHAT YOU NEED
Adobe Acrobat
Netopia's Timbuktu Pro
^ Instant-messaging software, such as ICQ
o
e Internet access
evolved accordingly—Microsoft Word
and Excel, for instance, have features for
adding annotations to documents. These
stieky-note-like comments don’t appear
within a document’s text, but instead
show up as small icons. Double-click on
an annotation’s icon, and up pops a small
window containing the comment.
But graphics and design programs
generally don’t offer annotation features.
And even with Word and Excel, there’s
the risk that someone will make changes
to a document without letting others
know about it.
The answer: Adobe Acrobat 4.0.
Acrobat lias always been a great tool for
distributing documents electronically—
convert a file into Acrobat’s Portable
Document Format (PDF), and then send
the PDF to your colleagues, who can
review it and print it using the free Acro¬
bat Reader software. Acrobat adeptly
preserves the original document’s for¬
matting, even simulating fonts not
installed on a recipient’s system.
Acrobat 4,0 goes beyond these
basics to pack a full array of collabora¬
tion tools (see “Acrobat Annotated”).
Each member of a workgroup can attach
annotations to a document and review
annotations others have made. Acrobat
4.0 also enables you to mark up a docu¬
ment: you can, for instance, draw a
strike-through bar to mark a section of
text for deletion, and then attach replace¬
ment text by typing it in a pop-up win¬
dow. Because reviewers arc working on
a PDF file and not the original, there’s
no worrying about changes to the origi¬
nal file and no fretting over whose copy
is the current version.
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Chat and Swap
Annotation features arc noteworthy (get
it?), but they don’t allow for real-time
remote brainstorming and collaboration,
The telephone docs, but can lead to a
hefty long-distance phone bill.
One potential solution is instant¬
messaging (IM) software. Several free
IM programs are available for both the
Mac OS and Windows, and although
they’re most commonly associated with
lovelorn teens, they can be powerful
collaboration tools, too.
From a telecommuter’s perspective,
the best IM software for the Mac is the
freeware ICQ (www.icq.com). ICQ s
interface is cluttered and cumbersome at
times, but the software has two crucial
features: it supports file transfers and
URL exchange.
Remote Nirvana
ICQ) does the job for occasional tele-
brainstorm in g, but if remote collabora¬
tion is a big part of your work life, go
all the way to Timbuktu. Available for
both the Mac OS and Windows,
Netopia’s Timbuktu (510/S 14-5000,
ww w. netopia.com/so ftwa re /t h 2 /) p ro -
vides first-rate chat and file-exchange
features and even an intercom mode
that lets you chat using your vocal
cords instead of your hands.
But these goodies are only side
dishes; Timbuktu’s main course is remote
observation and control. Outfit two or
more computers with Timbuktu, and
each user can watch the others’ screens or
even control other computers via modem,
local network, or the Internet (see
Reviews, November 1998),
You get real power by combining
remote observation with Timbuktu’s chat,
intercom, and file-exchange features, as
in the following example:
‘Tve got the latest layout on my
screen. What do you think?’ 1
“Change the headline font to Ran¬
som Note Bold.”
“OK. 1 low’s that? ”
“Good. And by the way, I rescanned
Acrobat Annotated
ACROBAT <1.0‘S ANNOTATION AND
MARKUP FEATURES SIMPLIFY THE
PROCESS OF REVIEWING AND COMMENT¬
ING ON DOCUMENTS.
Tips for Working with Acrobat
Annotations
* To change an annotation’s properties—
for example, to use a different icon for
notes or a different graphic for stamps—
press control while clicking on it, then
choose Properties from the pop-up menu.
* To make an annotation with a custom
size—for example, a very large Note—-
don't just click, Instead, drag across the
PDF until the rectangle is the desired size
and then release the mouse button.
* You can import and export annotations
with the File menu’s Import and Export
submenus. One reason to do so is to com¬
bine annotations from several people into
one master file. Each user exports his or
her annotations and then e-mails the file
to whoever is assembling the master list.
That person then imports a!l the annota-
tion files into a single PDF.
* Want to see only a certain type of
annotation, or view only one person's
comments? Choose Filter Manager from
the Tools menu's Annotations submenu,
and then choose which or whose annota¬
tions you want to see.
(A) The Stamp tool is a virtual rubber
stamp. Acrobat includes dozens of stamp
graphics—everything from the usual Con¬
fidential and Approved to offbeat ones
like Nuke This.
(B) The preset annotation tool is the Notes
tool. To choose other annotation tools,
point to the Notes tool and hold down the
mouse button to make a pop-up menu
appear, then drag to select the desired tool.
(C) The page icon denotes a Note. Double¬
click on the icon to view the annotation.
CD) A Text annotation appears directly
on the PDF—there's no need to double¬
click an icon to view it
(E) Click on the triangle to display a short¬
cut menu that enables you to import,
export, and sort.
(F) Click this icon to scan the PDF for
annotations and update the contents of
the Annotations palette.
114 September 1 999 MACWORLD
the photo. I’m sending you a revised
version now,”
This live collaboration is faster than
annotating and e-mailing PDFs. It's
almost like sitting alongside a colleague,
but you can’t catch his or her cold.
One of the beauties of Timbuktu is
its support for multiple platforms and
protocols. You can tap into other Macs
on your network via AppleTalk, or you
can use the Internet to tap into remote
Macs or Windows machines using
TCP/1R You can even mix and match
within a single chat window, connecting
to local Macs via AppleTalk and remote
machines via TCP/IP. (For more tips, see
‘ ‘Tel ecom m uti n g wi th Ti m 1 m kn i
It's No (Company) Picnic
Re mote-collaboration tools can span the
miles, but they aren’t always a perfect
substitute for getting together in what
some call meatspace. A lengthy chat ses¬
sion can take its toll on your wrists.
Intercom features such as Timbuktu’s
can address these shortcomings, but
voice-over-Internet technology lacks the
sound quality and reliability' of the tele¬
phone. Videoconferencing also holds
promise; however, all but the most expen¬
sive videoconferencing tools deliver frus-
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Adaptec
Adobe Internet
AEC Software
Agfa Corporation
AIWA
Alps Electric
ALSOFT
American Power Conversion
Anthro
APS Technologies
Asante Technologies
ATI Technologies, Inc.
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800/257-6381
888/289-APCC ext. 8250 53
www.anthro.com
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Bottom Line Distribution
Bungie Software
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www.bungie.com
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CDW Computer Centers, Inc. 800/509-4239
CE Software 800/579-9452
CNET
Connectix
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Dantz Development
Dataviz
Diehl Graphs oft
www.dantz.com 8
800/270-0030 ext, 133 41
www.diehlgraphsoft.com 22
Epson America
Extensis
800/BUY EPSON
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For mac
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32,33
GCC Technologies
Global Village
www.gcctech.coin 4,5
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Hire Knowledge
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Info wave
Interland, Inc
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800/599-0547
JfrR Computer World
800/221-8180
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IFC,1
Lucas Arts Entertainment
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94
Mac Zones
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MacMall/Creative Computers 800/222-2808
Macromedia
MacSoft
MacWa rehouse
MegaHaus
MetaCreations Corp
MicroMat
Microsoft
Newer Technology
Nikon Electronic Imaging
Orange Micro
Pangea Software
Pantone
PowerOn
ProDirect
Publish
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Rocket eBook
Seybold
The Creative Group
ViewSonic
VST Technologies Inc. ,
Webbies
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www,gtstore.com
800/434*3035
800/786-1184
800/846-0111
800/829-6227
www.microsoft.com/macl 2,13
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20,58
63
888-PANTONE 7
www,poweronsw,com 100
800/524-9952 154
888/887-3679 101
8O0/63RICOH 11
www, rocket-ebook.com 103
888/886-8895
98
www. thecr eativegroupcom 103
800/ 888-8583 57
www.vsttech.com 20,44,60
112
XANTE Corporation
Xerox Corporation
XLR8 by tnterex
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6
Anthro
HARDWARE
BOARDS
IBC
39
48
47,49,51
20,58
32,33
Newer Technology
Adaptec
XLR8 by Interex
ATI Technologies, Inc.
Orange Micro
Formac
ENTERTAINMENT
20,58 Orange Micro
COMPUTER SYSTEMS
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DfGITIZERS/SCANNERS
21 Nikon Electronic Imaging
DISPLAY
57
ViewSonic
HARD DISKS/STORAGE
16 AIWA
154 Pro Direct
155 Bottom Line Distribution
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16 AIWA
EXPANSIONS/UPGRADES
48
INPUT DEVICES
BC
XLR8 by Imerex
Kensington
MISCELLANEOUS
103
11
Rocket eBook
RICOH
MODEMS
9
NETWORKING
85
POWERBOOK
20,44,60
Global Village
Asante Technologies
VST Technologies Inc.,
RICOH
GCC Technologies
XANTE Corporation
Xerox Corporation
Epson America
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56
Scanner
50
MISCELLANEOUS
53
SECURITY
53
Alps Electric
Agfa Corporation
American Power Conversion
American Power Conversion
55
60
106
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IFC.1
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144-149
APS Technologies
62
[mail order
152
MegaHaus
229
153
J&R Computer World
282
154
ProDirect
135
155
Bottom Line Distribution
221
119-127
MacMall/Creative Computers
131
128-135
Mac Zones
71
136-143
MacWarehouse
150
150,151
CDW Computer Centers, Inc.
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61
Hire Knowledge
207
103
The Creative Group
—
112
Webbies
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24,25
CNET
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TRADESHOWS/CONFERENCES
98
Seybold
—
101
Publish Conferences 99
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BUSINESS
10
AEC Software
203
12,13
Microsoft
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CAD/CAM
22
Diehl Graph soft
46
COMMUNICATION
18
CE Software
170
41
Dataviz
142
GRAPHICS/DTP
7
Pantone
15
19
Macromedia
36
104
MetaCreations Corp
5
109
Extensis
14
MULTIMEDIA
19
Macromedia
36
ENTERTAINMENT
63
Pangea Software
95
64
MacSoft
29
67
Bungie Software
40
94
LucasArts Entertainment
Company LLC
102
MUSIC
45
Casady & Greene
115
ONLINE
31
Adobe Internet
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52
Inter land, Inc
10
UTILITIES
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Dantz Development
26
26
MicroMat
67
42
Casady & Greene
116
43
ALSOFT
140
54
Connectix
105
Infowave
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Stealing for a Better Tomorrow
WHAT THE MAC OS AND WINDOWS CAN LEARN FROM EACH OTHER
UOM R HR LATER, STEVE
jobs and Bill Gates
will be hauled into that
big principal’s office in
the sky. “You've been
bad boys/' Saint Peter
will boom. “ Ha veu V yo u
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not stall foak-tt ml-feel?”
Steve will shuffle his feet and point
accusingly at Bill. “He started it!”
lie’ll be right: for years, Microsoft
Windows engineers have shamelessly
ripped off Apple’s best design ideas.
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ple. could almost he Windows 98 s bet-
ter-looking brother: the Favorites menu,
draggable window edges, proportional
scroll boxes, the little arrow “badge”
on an alias icon, program switching via
3£-tah, daylight saving time self-correc¬
tion, and rhe Network Browser all
debuted in Windows.
Now Apple and Microsoft are both
gearing up for massive OS overhauls:
Mae OS X and Windows 2000. In the
interest of better computing for all, 1
wholeheartedly applaud their dueling
in tel tactual-property raids. Here’s what's
worth pilfering from each company’s rival
OS . . , that hasn’t already been stolen.
What Apple Should Steal
hi Windows, you can press Windows
key-M to jump to the desktop. All win¬
dows in all programs are instantly hid¬
den, giving you uncluttered access ro
your icons, disks, and the Recycle Bin.
Wouldn’t that be nice?
Furthermore, in Window's, you can
assign a keystroke to any alias; you don’t
have to buy QuicKeys jusi to get program
launching from the keyboard.
The Calculator, the Mac’s handy but
antediluvian desk accessory, hasn't
changed since Reagan was president. The
Windows calculator has bigger buttons,
memory functions, a dear-error key, and
a complete 11P scientific-calculator mode.
The Windows Start menu is an obvi¬
ous rip-off of our Apple menu—and now
it’s payback time. Apple should add a Pro¬
grams menu item, like the one in the Start
menu, to file Apple menu, h lists ereiy
program on your hard drive, which saves
everyone, novices and experts alike, infi¬
nite window burrowing.
In Windows, little underlines tell you
what keystrokes activate menu com¬
mands, check boxes, and radio buttons.
Apple has always res islet I giving us such
total keyboard control. But now that large
numbers of Mae buyers are refugees from
Windows* its lime to reconsider. (If
Apple’s worried about cluttering up the
screen, it should do what Claris used to
do: make die little underlines appear only
when you’re pressing the 3S key.)
What Microsoft Should Steal
Windows desperately needs a title-bar
doodad, like rhe Mac’s zoom box, that
resizes windows so they’re exactly large
enough to contain die icons in them.
Windows PCs don’t come with a sys¬
tem-software start-up CD-ROM like
every Mac does; older models can’t even
boot from a CD. If your Windows folder
gets corrupted, get read) for three hours
on the phone with a tech-support rep.
Despite the fact that Windows 98 is
supposed to be able to handle file names
up to 255 characters long, the vast
majority of files provided by Microsoft
itself still have stupid names like
FJWINIT.DLL. For heaven’s sake,
Microsoft: you’ve got rhe space, now
give self-explanatory names to your own
files, as Apple does. Or come up with an
equivalent to the Mac’s Exten¬
sions Manager, to help us fig¬
ure out what all ihis lint is,
AppleScript. Enough said.
Hard though it may be to
believe, when you quit a Win¬
dows program, some of its
windows may remain open,
stranded on your screen—a
complication of Windows' win¬
dow-centric approach. The
Mac’s application orientation
works better.
Finally, despite all its recent
talk about simplicity, Microsoft
still believes that what makes a
better Min daws is more fea¬
tures. The Microsoft credo, “If
you upgrade it, they will come,”
only aggravates the worst
aspects of Windows—bloat and complex¬
ity, On the other hand, it’s been years
since Apple foisted useless, porcine fea¬
tures on us (remember Open Doc and
PowerTalk?). These days, the Mac’s
designers consider new OS features much
more carefully, weighing how each will
affect the whole. When it comes to
enhancing system software, Microsoft is
still years away from stealing—or even
noticing—Apple’s crown jewel: knowing
when to stop, m
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Fmrst, nf the forthcoming Crvsring Platforms: ./
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